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BEHOLD these jewelled merchant Ancestors Foregathered in some chancellery of death; Calm provident discreet they stroke their beards And move their faces slowly in the gloom And barter monstrous wealth with speech subdued 5 Lustreless eyes and acquiescent lids. And oft in pauses of their conference They listen to the measured breath of night¡¯s Hushed sweep of wind aloft the swaying trees In dimly gesturing gardens; then a voice 10 Climbs with clear mortal song half-sad for heaven. A silent-footed message flits and brings The ghostly Sultan from his glimmering halls; A shadow at the window turbaned vast He leans; and pondering the sweet influence 15 That steals around him in remembered flowers Hears the frail music wind along the slopes Put forth and fade across the whispering sea.
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