"Bring me soft song," said Aladdin.
"This tailor-shop sings not at all.
Chant me a word of the twilight,
Of roses that mourn in the fall.
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I know a seraph who has golden eyes,
And hair of gold, and body like the snow.
Here in the wind I dream her unbound hair
Is blowing round me, that desire's sweet glow
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Would that by Hindu magic we became
Dark monks of jeweled India long ago,
Sitting at Prince Siddartha's feet to know
The foolishness of gold and love and station,
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(What the Mendicant Said )
The moon's a monk, unmated,
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[To be sung to the tune of The Blood of the Lamb with indicated instrument]
I
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Though I have watched so many mourners weep
O'er the real dead, in dull earth laid asleep—
Those dead seemed but the shadows of my days
That passed and left me in the sun's bright rays.
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[What the Man of Faith said]
The dew, the rain and moonlight
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DEDICATED TO LUCY BATES
(Being a reminiscence of certain private theatricals.)
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"Tell me, where do ghosts in love
Find their bridal veils?"
"If you and I were ghosts in love
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I look on the specious electrical light
Blatant, mechanical, crawling and white,
Wickedly red or malignantly green
Like the beads of a young Senegambian queen.
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