Sings loves of Mejnoon and Leila—

Her voice is a houri flute;—

While the fragrant flambeaux wave

Barbaric o'er free and slave,

O'er fabrics and bezels of gems

And roses in anadems.

Sherbets in ewers of gold,

Fruits in salvers carnelian;

Flagons of grotesque mold,

Made of a sapphire glass,

Brimmed with wine of Shiraz;

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Shaddock and melon and grape

On plate of an antique shape.

Vases of frosted rose,

Of limpid alabaster,

Filled with the mountain snows;

Goblets of mother-of-pearl,

One filigree silver-swirl;

Vessels of gold foamed up

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