“Bring me soft song,” said Aladdin.
“This tailor-shop sings not at all.
Chant me a word of the twilight,
Of roses that mourn in the fall.
Bring me a song like hashish
That will comfort the stale and the sad,
For I would be mending my spirit,
Forgetting these days that are bad,
Forgetting companions too shallow,
Their quarrels and arguments thin,
Forgetting the shouting Muezzin:”-
“I AM YOUR SLAVE,” said the Jinn.
“Bring me old wines,” said Aladdin.
“I have been a starved pauper too long.
Serve them in vessels of jade and of shell,
Serve them with fruit and with song:-
Wines of pre-Adamite Sultans
Digged from beneath the black seas:-
New-gathered dew from the heavens
Dripped down from Heaven's sweet trees,
Cups from the angels' pale tables
That will make me both handsome and wise,
For I have beheld her, the princess,
Firelight and starlight her eyes.
Pauper I am, I would woo her.
And-let me drink wine, to begin,
Though the Koran expressly forbids it.”
“I AM YOUR SLAVE,” said the Jinn.
“Plan me a dome,” said Aladdin,
“That is drawn like the dawn of the MOON,
When the sphere seems to rest on the mountains,
Half-hidden, yet full-risen soon.”
“Build me a dome,” said Aladdin,
“That shall cause all young lovers to sigh,
The fullness of life and of beauty,
Peace beyond peace to the eye-
A palace of foam and of opal,
Pure moonlight without and within,
Where I may enthrone my sweet lady.”
“I AM YOUR SLAVE,” said the Jinn.
Aladdin And The Jinn
Vachel Lindsay
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Poem topics: beauty, heaven, life, moon, sad, hidden, wise, fruit, young, long, spirit, pure, sphere, handsome, lady, drink, black, soft, moonlight, plan, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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