Versos English Madison Julius Cawein Ii

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No eunuch, black-browed as a Marid, Prevented me. Shadows it seemed Were the slaves there, with kohl and with henné In eyes and on fingers; and many The phantoms of beauty, that dreamed Where censers of ambergris steamed. And I came on a colonnade, quarried From silvery marble it seemed.