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Four great gates has the city of Damascus	A
And four Grand Wardens on their spears reclining	B
All day long stand like tall stone men	C
And sleep on the towers when the moon is shining	B
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'This is the song of the East Gate Warden	D
When he locks the great gate and smokes in his garden'	D
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Postern of Fate the Desert Gate Disaster's Cavern Fort of Fear	E
The Portal of Bagdad am I the Doorway of Diarbekir	E
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The Persian dawn with new desires may net the flushing mountain spires	F
But my gaunt buttress still rejects the suppliance of those mellow fires	G
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Pass not beneath O Caravan or pass not singing Have you heard	H
That silence where the birds are dead yet something pipeth like a bird	H
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Pass not beneath Men say there blows in stony deserts still a rose	I
But with no scarlet to her leaf and from whose heart no perfume flows	I
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Wilt thou bloom red where she buds pale thy sister rose Wilt thou not fail	J
When noonday flashes like a flail Leave nightingale the Caravan	D
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Pass then pass all Bagdad ye cry and down the billows of blue sky	K
Ye beat the bell that beats to hell and who shall thrust ye back Not I	K
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The Sun who flashes through the head and paints the shadows green and red	L
The Sun shall eat thy fleshless dead O Caravan O Caravan	D
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And one who licks his lips for thirst with fevered eyes shall face in fear	E
The palms that wave the streams that burst his last mirage O Caravan	D
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And one the bird voiced Singing man shall fall behind thee Caravan	D
And God shall meet him in the night and he shall sing as best he can	D
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And one the Bedouin shall slay and one sand stricken on the way	M
Go dark and blind and one shall say 'How lonely is the Caravan '	-
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Pass out beneath O Caravan Doom's Caravan Death's Caravan	D
I had not told ye fools so much save that I heard your Singing man	D
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'This was sung by the West Gate's keeper	E
When heaven's hollow dome grew deeper'	E
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I am the gate toward the sea O sailor men pass out from me	N
I hear you high on Lebanon singing the marvels of the sea	N
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The dragon green the luminous the dark the serpent haunted sea	N
The snow besprinkled wine of earth the white and blue flower foaming sea	N
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Beyond the sea are towns with towers carved with lions and lily flowers	G
And not a soul in all those lonely streets to while away the hours	G
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Beyond the towns an isle where bound a naked giant bites the ground	O
The shadow of a monstrous wing looms on his back and still no sound	O
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Beyond the isle a rock that screams like madmen shouting in their dreams	P
From whose dark issues night and day blood crashes in a thousand streams	P
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Beyond the rock is Restful Bay where no wind breathes or ripple stirs	G
And there on Roman ships they say stand rows of metal mariners	G
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Beyond the bay in utmost West old Solomon the Jewish King	B
Sits with his beard upon his breast and grips and guards his magic ring	B
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And when that ring is stolen he will rise in outraged majesty	N
And take the World upon his back and fling the World beyond the sea	N
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'This is the song of the North Gate's master	E
Who singeth fast but drinketh faster '	-
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I am the gay Aleppo Gate a dawn a dawn and thou art there	E
Eat not thy heart with fear and care O brother of the beast we hate	Q
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Thou hast not many miles to tread nor other foes than fleas to dread	L
Homs shall behold thy morning meal and Hama see thee safe in bed	L
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Take to Aleppo filigrane and take them paste of apricots	R
And coffee tables botched with pearl and little beaten brassware pots	R
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And thou shalt sell thy wares for thrice the Damascene retailers' price	S
And buy a fat Armenian slave who smelleth odorous and nice	S
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Some men of noble stock were made some glory in the murder blade	T
Some praise a Science or an Art but I like honourable Trade	T
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Sell them the rotten buy the ripe Their heads are weak their pockets burn	D
Aleppo men are mighty fools Salaam Aleikum Safe return	D
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'This is the song of the South Gate Holder	E
A silver man but his song is older '	-
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I am the Gate that fears no fall the Mihrab of Damascus wall	U
The bridge of booming Sinai the Arch of Allah all in all	U
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O spiritual pilgrim rise the night has grown her single horn	D
The voices of the souls unborn are half adream with Paradise	S
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To Meccah thou hast turned in prayer with aching heart and eyes that burn	D
Ah Hajji whither wilt thou turn when thou art there when thou art there	E
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God be thy guide from camp to camp God be thy shade from well to well	V
God grant beneath the desert stars thou hear the Prophet's camel bell	V
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And God shall make thy body pure and give thee knowledge to endure	E
This ghost life's piercing phantom pain and bring thee out to Life again	D
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And God shall make thy soul a Glass where eighteen thousand ons pass	W
And thou shalt see the gleaming Worlds as men see dew upon the grass	W
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And son of Islam it may be that thou shalt learn at journey's end	X
Who walks thy garden eve on eve and bows his head and calls thee Friend	X

James Elroy Flecker

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