| Show aai AN fasl EASTERN ERN BEAUTY then on a sudden came a mald maid with tambourine to dance for us allah ill wahl it was she ahe the slave girl from the that purchased recently long narrow eyes as black as blackl and melting like the stars in ju jun M tresses of night drawn smoothly baffe from eyebrows like the crescent moon she khe paused an instant with bowe AelA then sit at a motion of her wrist A vell veil of outspread gread I 1 and wrape her in a silver mist i her bunto was ot of green shot through with many a starry speck the zone that clasped it might have been A collar for a cognets cygnets neck none of the twenty charms she lacked demanded for perfections grace erace harm charm upon charm in her was packed like rose leaves in a costly vaso full in the lanterns colored light she seemed a thing ot of paradise 1 I 1 knew not it if I 1 saw aright or if my vision told me lies those lanterns spread a cb cheating eating glare such stains they threw from bough to vine As aa it if the slave boys here end and thero had split spilt a jar ot of brilliant bridant wine and then the fountains drowsy fall the burning aloes heavy scent the night the place the hour they all were full fall of subtle b blandishment landish ment thomas bailey aldrich in Har harpers pees |
