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Where Time the measure of his hours	A
By changeful bud and blossom keeps	B
And like a young bride crowned with flowers	A
Fair Shiraz in her garden sleeps	B
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Where to her poet's turban stone	C
The Spring her gift of flowers imparts	D
Less sweet than those his thoughts have sown	C
In the warm soil of Persian hearts	D
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There sat the stranger where the shade	E
Of scattered date trees thinly lay	F
While in the hot clear heaven delayed	E
The long and still and weary day	F
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Strange trees and fruits above him hung	G
Strange odors filled the sultry air	H
Strange birds upon the branches swung	G
Strange insect voices murmured there	H
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And strange bright blossoms shone around	I
Turned sunward from the shadowy bowers	A
As if the Gheber's soul had found	I
A fitting home in Iran's flowers	A
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Whate'er he saw whate'er he heard	J
Awakened feelings new and sad	K
No Christian garb nor Christian word	J
Nor church with Sabbath bell chimes glad	K
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But Moslem graves with turban stones	L
And mosque spires gleaming white in view	M
And graybeard Mollahs in low tones	L
Chanting their Koran service through	M
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The flowers which smiled on either hand	N
Like tempting fiends were such as they	F
Which once o'er all that Eastern land	N
As gifts on demon altars lay	F
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As if the burning eye of Baal	F
The servant of his Conqueror knew	M
From skies which knew no cloudy veil	F
The Sun's hot glances smote him through	M
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'Ah me ' the lonely stranger said	O
'The hope which led my footsteps on	P
And light from heaven around them shed	O
O'er weary wave and waste is gone	Q
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'Where are the harvest fields all white	R
For Truth to thrust her sickle in	S
Where flock the souls like doves in flight	R
From the dark hiding place of sin	S
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'A silent horror broods o'er all	F
The burden of a hateful spell	F
The very flowers around recall	F
The hoary magi's rites of hell	F
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'And what am I o'er such a land	N
The banner of the Cross to bear	H
Dear Lord uphold me with Thy hand	N
Thy strength with human weakness share '	-
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He ceased for at his very feet	T
In mild rebuke a floweret smiled	U
How thrilled his sinking heart to greet	T
The Star flower of the Virgin's child	U
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Sown by some wandering Frank it drew	M
Its life from alien air and earth	V
And told to Paynim sun and dew	M
The story of the Saviour's birth	V
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From scorching beams in kindly mood	W
The Persian plants its beauty screened	X
And on its pagan sisterhood	Y
In love the Christian floweret leaned	X
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With tears of joy the wanderer felt	Z
The darkness of his long despair	H
Before that hallowed symbol melt	Z
Which God's dear love had nurtured there	H
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From Nature's face that simple flower	A2
The lines of sin and sadness swept	B2
And Magian pile and Paynim bower	A2
In peace like that of Eden slept	B2
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Each Moslem tomb and cypress old	C2
Looked holy through the sunset air	H
And angel like the Muezzin told	C2
From tower and mosque the hour of prayer	H
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With cheerful steps the morrow's dawn	Q
From Shiraz saw the stranger part	D2
The Star flower of the Virgin Born	E2
Still blooming in his hopeful heart	D2

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