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'Twixt ancient Beersheba and Dan	A
Another such a caravan	A
Dazed Palestine had never seen	B
As that which bore Sabea's queen	B
Up from the fain and flaming South	C
To slake her yearning spirit's drouth	C
At wisdom's pools with Solomon	D
	-
With gifts of scented sandalwood	E
And labdanum and cassia bud	E
With spicy spoils of Araby	F
And camel loads of ivory	G
And heavy cloths that glanced and shone	H
With inwrought pearl and beryl stone	H
She came a bold Sabean girl	I
	-
And did she find him grave or gay	J
Perchance his palace breathed that day	J
With psalters sounding solemnly	G
Or cymbals' merrier minstrelsy	K
Perchance the wearied monarch heard	E
Some loose tongued prophet's meddling word	E
None knows no one but Solomon	D
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She looked with eyne wherein were blent	E
All ardors of the Orient	E
She spake all magics of the South	C
Were compassed in the witch's mouth	C
He thought the scarlet lips of her	L
More precious than En Gedi's myrrh	L
The lips of that Sabean girl	I
	-
By many an amorous sun caressed	E
From lifted brow to amber breast	E
She gleamed in vivid loveliness	K
And lithe as any leopardess	K
And verily one blames thee not	E
If thine own proverbs were forgot	E
O Solomon wise Solomon	D
	-
She danced for him and surely she	G
Learnt dancing from some moonlit sea	G
	-
Where elfin vapors swirled and swayed	E
While the wild pipes of witchcraft played	E
Such clutching music 'twould impel	M
A prophet's self to dance to hell	M
So spun the light Sabean girl	I
	-
He swore her laughter had the lilt	E
Of chiming waters that are spilt	E
In sprays of spurted melody	G
From founts of carven porphyry	G
And in the billowy turbulence	K
Of her dusk hair drowned soul and sense	K
Dark tides and deep O Solomon	D
	-
Perchance unto her day belongs	K
His poem called the Song of Songs	K
Each little lyric interval	N
Timed to her pulse's rise and fall	O
Or when he cried out wearily	G
That all things end in vanity	G
Did he mean that Sabean girl	I
	-
The bright barbaric opulence	K
The sun kist Temple Kedar's tents	K
	-
How many a careless caravan	A
'Twixt Beersheba and ruined Dan	A
Within these forty centuries	K
Has flung their dust to many a breeze	K
With dust that was King Solomon	D
	-
But still the lesson holds as true	P
O King as when she lessoned you	P
That very wise men are not wise	K
Until they read in Folly's eyes	K
The wisdom that escapes the schools	K
That bids the sage revise his rules	K
By light of some Sabean girl	I

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