This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...the sheltering shroud of thy snowy kiebaub; Lo, there shines Muezzin, the beautiful star! Thy lover is with thee, and danger afar: Say, is it the glance of the haughty vizier, Or the bark of the distant effendi, you fear 1 Oh, swift fly the hours in the garden of bliss! And sweeter than balm of Gehenna, thy ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...the sheltering shroud of thy snowy kiebaub; Lo, there shines Muezzin, the beautiful star! Thy lover is with thee, and danger afar: Say, is it the glance of the haughty vizier, Or the bark of the distant effendi, you fear 1 Oh, swift fly the hours in the garden of bliss! And sweeter than balm of Gehenna, thy kiss! Wherever I wander--wherever I roam, My spirit flies back to its beautiful home: It dwells by the lake of the limpid Stamboul, With thee, my adored one! my own attar-gul! Methinlcs I see him already in the cart, sweeter mid more lovely than the nosegay in his hand! I hear the crowd extolling his resolution and intrepidity! What volleys of sighs are sent from the windows of Holborn, that so comely a youth should be brought to disgrace! I see him at the tree! the whole circle are in tears I even butchers weep!"--Beggar's Opera. A Living sea of eager human faces, A thousand bosoms, throbbing all as one, Walls, windows, balconies, all sorts of places, Holding their crowds of gazers to the sun: Through the hushed groups low buzzing murmurs run; And on the air, with slow reluctant swell, Comes the dull funeral boom of old Sepulchre's bell. Oh, joy in London now! in festal measure Be spent the evening of this festive day! For thee is opening now a high-stmng pleasure Now, even now, in yonder press-yard they Strike from his limbs the fetters loose away! A little while, and he, the brave Dnval, Will issue forth, serene, to glad and greet you all. "Why comes he not! say, wherefore doth he tarry?" Starts the enquiry loud from every tongue. " Surely," they cry, " that tedious Ordinary His tedious psalms must long ere this have sung, --Tedious to him that's waiting to be hung!" But hark! old Newgate's doors fly wide apart. " He comes, he comes!" A...
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