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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IN THE GRAND BAZAAR
IN the Grand Bazaar of the Damascenes,With its violet lights and purple sheens,And sifting in from the outer airThe shimmer of amber here and there,You may touch through sight and sound and scentThe very heart of the Orient!Come, then, comrade, and let us driftWith the human tides that part and shiftAnd surge and jostle, and taste the thrillOf life that smacks of the desert still,And keeps some glimmering ghost of the stateOf the glamoured days of the Caliphate!
Haughty of mien and rich of dress,Saunter the Lords of the Wilderness —(Mark the pride of Bassan Beni,Sheik of a wide oasis he) —With their camel's-hair head-ropes bound with goldOver silvery kerchiefs fold on fold!Sellers of sherbet and sellers of sweets, Venders of spices and milk and meats,Water-bearers, with cheery chants,Droning dervishes, mendicants,—Such is the mesh that the motley meansIn the Grand Bazaar of the Damascenes!
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And when the chaffer and din are done,And the sun dips down behind Lebanon,And the last of the pilgrim feet has trodThrough Bawabet Ullah, the Gates of God,And there's never a sign of a veilèd face,Nor a proud Pasha (by Allah's grace!)Then what a pageant from Timur downPasses this pathway of old renown,—Spirits out-stolen from ParadiseTo wander awhile in their earthly guise,While night, with her spangled mantle, leansO'er the Grand Bazaar of the Damascenes!
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