Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
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Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
Author
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
1885
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A TURKISH LEGEND.
A CERTAIN Pasha, dead these thousand years, Once from his harem fled in sudden tears,
And had this sentence on the city's gate Deeply engraven, "Only God is great."
So those four words above the city's noise Hung like the accents of an angel's voice,
And evermore, from the high barbacan, Saluted each returning caravan.
Lost is that city's glory. Every gust Lifts, with crisp leaves, the unknown Pasha's dust.
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And all is ruin—save one wrinkled gate Whereon is written, "Only God is great."
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