Ballads : patriotic & romantic / by Clinton Scollard [electronic text]
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Ballads : patriotic & romantic / by Clinton Scollard [electronic text]
Author
Scollard, Clinton, 1860-1932
Publication
New York, N.Y.: Laurence J. Gomme
1916
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descriptionPage 90
THE MISER
BY night he sits and gloats upon his hoard,The treasures of far lands; fine fabrics spunOn looms beneath an oriental sun;Rugs whereupon proud viziers have adoredAt the muezzin-call; strange trinkets scoredWith delicate fret-work; dazzling diamonds wonWhere Afric's wastes stretch desolate and dun;And perfect pearls profuse before him poured.
A golden glamour on the sumptuous sightThe lamplight casts, and the old miser's eyesTell how his soul is slave beneath the spell.He does not dream, as half reclined he lies,That just behind him stands, with falchion bright,The summoning death-angel, Azrael.
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