A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems
 With the mountains and the sky. 

 "It is a timeless land and still; 

 The heavens slowly like a wheel 

 Revolve themselves around; 

 There are two rulers in that place; 

 Eternity sits throned by space; 

 Their law is without sound. 

 "Ho! you folk, such feats I did 

 On the world's roof the snow amid, 

 Ho! such an one as I— 

 I matched the wild goat in my race, 

 And underneath the long wise face 

 I pulled the beard awry. 

 "Five years I sported undismayed, 

 But suddenly I was afraid, 

 Yea, fearfully amazed. 

 I saw the eye of a dying hare; 

 Infinity was mirrored there 

 Ere it was wholly glazed. 

 "And this shall be my daily good, 


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