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If I sit in the dust	A
For lauding good wine	B
Ha ha it is just	A
So sits the vine	B
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Abu Midjan sang as he sat in chains	C
For the blood of the grape ran the juice of his veins	C
The Prophet had said O Faithful drink not	D
Abu Midjan drank till his heart was hot	D
Yea he sang a song in praise of wine	B
He called it good names a joy divine	B
The giver of might the opener of eyes	E
Love's handmaid the water of Paradise	F
Therefore Saad his chief spake words of blame	G
And set him in irons a fettered flame	G
But he sings of the wine as he sits in his chains	C
For the blood of the grape runs the juice of his veins	C
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I will not think	H
That the Prophet said	I
Ye shall not drink	H
Of the flowing red	I
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'Tis a drenched brain	J
Whose after sting	K
Cries out Refrain	J
'Tis an evil thing	K
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But I will dare	L
With a goodly drought	M
To drink nor spare	L
Till my thirst be out	M
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I do not laugh	N
Like a Christian fool	O
But in silence quaff	N
The liquor cool	O
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At door of tent	P
'Neath evening star	Q
With daylight spent	P
And Uriel afar	Q
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Then through the sky	R
Lo the emerald hills	S
My faith swells high	R
My bosom thrills	S
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I see them hearken	J
The Houris that wait	T
Their dark eyes darken	J
The diamond gate	T
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I hear the float	U
Of their chant divine	J
And my heart like a boat	U
Sails thither on wine	J
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Can an evil thing	K
Make beauty more	V
Or a sinner bring	K
To the heavenly door	V
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The sun rain fine	J
Would sink and escape	W
But is drunk by the vine	J
Is stored in the grape	W
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And the prisoned light	X
I free again	J
It flows in might	X
Through my shining brain	J
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I love and I know	J
The truth is mine	J
I walk in the glow	J
Of the sun bred wine	J
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I will not think	H
That the Prophet said	I
Ye shall not drink	H
Of the flowing red	I
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For his promises lo	J
Sevenfold they shine	J
When the channels o'erflow	J
With the singing wine	J
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But I care not I 'tis a small annoy	J
To sit in chains for a heavenly joy	J
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Away went the song on the light wind borne	J
His head sank down and a ripple of scorn	J
Shook the hair that flowed from his curling lip	Y
As he eyed his brown limbs in the iron's grip	Y
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Sudden his forehead he lifted high	R
A faint sound strayed like a moth wing by	R
Like beacons his eyes burst blazing forth	Z
A dust cloud he spied in the distant north	Z
A noise and a smoke on the plain afar	Q
'Tis the cloud and the clang of the Moslem war	V
He leapt aloft like a tiger snared	A2
The wine in his veins through his visage flared	A2
He tore at his fetters in bootless ire	B2
He called the Prophet he named his sire	C2
From his lips with wild shout the Techir burst	D2
He danced in his irons the Giaours he cursed	D2
And his eyes they flamed like a beacon dun	J
Or like wine in the crystal twixt eye and sun	J
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The lady of Saad heard him shout	M
Heard his fetters ring on the stones about	M
The heart of a warrior she understood	E2
And the rage of the thwarted battle mood	F2
Her name with the cry of an angry prayer	L
He called but once and the lady was there	L
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The Giaour he panted the Godless brute	G2
And me like a camel tied foot to foot	H2
Let me go and I swear by Allah's fear	I2
At sunset I don again this gear	I2
Or lie in a heaven of starry eyes	E
Kissed by moon maidens of Paradise	F
O lady grant me the death of the just	A
Hark to the hurtle see the dust	A
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With ready fingers the noble dame	G
Unlocked her husband's iron blame	G
Brought his second horse his Abdon out	M
And his second hauberk light and stout	M
Harnessed the warrior and hight him go	J
An angel of vengeance upon the foe	J
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With clank of steel and thud of hoof	N
Away he galloped she climbed the roof	N
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She sees the cloud and the flashes that leap	J2
From the scythe shaped swords inside it that sweep	J2
Down with back stroke the disordered swath	K2
Thither he speeds a bolt of wrath	L2
Straight as an arrow she sees him go	J
Abu Midjan the singer upon the foe	J
Like an eagle he vanishes in the cloud	M2
And the thunder of battle bursts more loud	M2
Mingled of crashes and blows and falls	N2
Of the whish that severs the throat that calls	N2
Of neighing and shouting and groaning grim	O2
Abu Midjan she sees no more of him	O2
Northward the battle drifts afar	Q
On the flowing tide of the holy war	V
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Lonely across the desert sand	P2
From his wrist by its thong hung his clotted brand	P2
Red in the sunset's level flame	G
Back to his bonds Abu Midjan came	G
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Lady I swear your Saad's horse	Q2
The Prophet himself might have rode a worse	R2
Like the knots of a serpent the play of his flesh	S2
As he tore to the quarry in Allah's mesh	S2
I forgot him and mowed at the traitor weeds	T2
Which fell before me like rushes and reeds	T2
Or like the tall poppies that sudden drop low	J
Their heads to an urchin's unstrung bow	U2
Fled the Giaour the faithful flew after to kill	J
I turned to surrender beneath me still	J
Was Abdon unjaded fresh in force	Q2
Faithful and fearless a heavenly horse	Q2
Give him water lady and barley to eat	V2
Then haste thee and fetter the wine bibber's feet	V2
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To the terrace he went and she to the stall	J
She tended the horse like guest in hall	J
Then to the warrior unhasting returned	W2
The fire of the fight in his eyes yet burned	W2
But he sat in a silence that might betoken	J
One ashamed that his heart had spoken	J
Though where was the word to breed remorse	Q2
He had lauded only his chief's brave horse	Q2
Not a word she spoke but his fetters locked	X2
He watched with a smile that himself bemocked	X2
She left him seated in caitiff plight	X2
Like one that had feared and fled the fight	X2
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But what singer ever sat lonely long	Y2
Ere the hidden fountain burst in song	Y2
The battle wine foamed in the warrior's veins	C
And he sang sword tempest who sat in chains	C
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Oh the wine	J
Of the vine	J
Is a feeble thing	K
In the rattle	J
Of battle	J
The true grapes spring	K
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When on whir	V
Of Tecbir	V
Allah's wrath flies	E
And the power	V
Of the Giaour	V
A blasted leaf lies	E
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When on force	Q2
Of the horse	Q2
The arm flung abroad	X2
Is sweeping	K
And reaping	K
The harvest of God	X2
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Ha they drop	Z2
From the top	Z2
To the sear heap below	J
Ha deeper	V
Down steeper	V
The infidels go	J
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Azrael	J
Sheer to hell	J
Shoots the foul shoals	A3
There Monker	V
And Nakir	V
Torture their souls	A3
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But when drop	Z2
On their crop	Z2
The scimitars red	X2
And under	V
War's thunder	V
The faithful lie dead	X2
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Oh bright	X2
Is the light	X2
On hero slow breaking	K
Rapturous faces	B3
Bent for embraces	C3
Watch for his waking	K
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And he hears	D3
In his ears	E3
The voice of Life's river	V
Like a song	Y2
Of the strong	Y2
Jubilant ever	V
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Oh the wine	J
Of the vine	J
May lead to the gates	F3
But the rattle	J
Of battle	J
Wakes the angel who waits	F3
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To the lord	X2
Of the sword	X2
Open it must	X2
The drinker	V
The thinker	V
Sits in the dust	X2
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He dreams	G3
Of the gleams	G3
Of their garments of white	X2
He misses	B3
Their kisses	B3
The maidens of light	X2
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They long	Y2
For the strong	Y2
Who has burst through alarms	H3
Up by the labour	V
Of stirrup and sabre	V
Up to their arms	H3
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Oh the wine of the grape is a feeble ghost	X2
The wine of the fight is the joy of a host	X2
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When Saad came home from the far pursuit	X2
An hour he sat and an hour was mute	X2
Then he opened his mouth Ah wife the fight	X2
Had been lost full sure but an arm of might	X2
Sudden rose up on the crest of the battle	J
Flashed blue lightnings thundered steel rattle	J
Took up the fighting and drove it on	J
Enoch sure or the good Saint John	J
Wherever he leaped like a lion he	I3
The battle was thickest or soon to be	I3
Wherever he sprang with his lion roar	V
In a minute the battle was there no more	V
With a headlong fear the sinners fled	X2
And we swept them down the steep of the dead	X2
Before us not from us did they flee	I3
They ceased in the depths of a new Red Sea	I3
But him who saved us we saw no more	V
He went as he came by a secret door	V
And strangest of all nor think I err	V
If a miracle I for truth aver	V
I was close to him thrice the holy Force	Q2
Wore my silver ringed hauberk rode Abdon my horse	Q2
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The lady rose up withholding her word	X2
And led to the terrace her wondering lord	X2
Where song soothed and weary with battle strain	J
Abu Midjan sat counting the links of his chain	J
The battle was raging he raging worse	R2
I freed him harnessed him gave him thy horse	Q2
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Abu Midjan the singer of love and of wine	J
The arm of the battle it also was thine	J
Rise up shake the irons from off thy feet	X2
For the lord of the fight are fetters meet	X2
If thou wilt then drink till thou be hoar	V
Allah shall judge thee I judge no more	V
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Abu Midjan arose he flung aside	X2
The clanking fetters and thus he cried	X2
If thou give me to God and his decrees	J3
Nor purge my sin with the shame of these	J3
Wrath against me I dare not store	V
In the name of Allah I drink no more	V