Blank Verse Pastels

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48

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82 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CARDINAL FLOWERS Where melancholy marshes meet and merge In darkling aisleways of luxuriant green, The cardinal flaunts its crimson flame, and streaks The emerald glooms. In far, forgotten years, A many-tined monarch of the wood, Pierced by a savage shaft, in death-flight blind Plunged past, and sprinkled the receptive mould With ruddy life-drops. When the year again Kindled with August heats, here burst in bloom These tapering torch-flowers that light autumn down The pilgrim path that summer's feet have pressed. TWO MEN One was a portly man of place, who wore An emerald turban, for his eyes had seen The Kaaba, and his reverent knees had pressed The sacred Mount of Light. Fat flocks were Of sheep and goats upon the grassy hills; And his were packed bazars, ? rich webs and From Bagdad looms, and from far Daghestan; His lips breathed prayer at each muezzin call; His hand gave alms upon the public ways; His neighbors held him sure of Paradise. The other was a houseless wanderer, one Who owned nor flocks nor store of fabrics fair, But only the coarse raiment on his back. Never his lips with prayer were prodigal; His hand bestowed small alms, for gold and he Had little fellowship. Yet those who heard The tales he spun, sitting beneath the shade Of drowsing walnuts in the heart of noon, Or in the tent's door, or in fountained court, When evening airs wooed forth the nightingale, Declared some grace from Allah dwelt with him. One morn it chanced from opposite highways These twain unto a space before a mosque Wherein a throng had gathered round a man Gaunt-eyed and lean. " A thief!" the shout went up; At this they both approached, and, seeing him Who wore the emerald turban, loudly cried The culprit's captor; "Mark, O sir, this knave Tha...

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