. St. Nicholas [serial] . h /. --fy/^y :.l,^„l ffll,,#,y i,^ quite as sweet to an early assyrian ear as the music of bach or beethoven. The king was delighted. This fisher, he cried, No more in the wilderness here shall abide!He shall come to my palace, shall stand at myside;For, whatever his name and his fate, he sA genius! And straight, ere the boy could draw back,They had hustled him into a—no, not a hack,But a chariot proud ;And away like a cloudHe was whirled, with the rest of the glitteringcrowd,From the banks of the river Euphrates. Now all of the wonderful things that befellAt the end
. St. Nicholas [serial] . h /. --fy/^y :.l,^„l ffll,,#,y i,^ quite as sweet to an early assyrian ear as the music of bach or beethoven. The king was delighted. This fisher, he cried, No more in the wilderness here shall abide!He shall come to my palace, shall stand at myside;For, whatever his name and his fate, he sA genius! And straight, ere the boy could draw back,They had hustled him into a—no, not a hack,But a chariot proud ;And away like a cloudHe was whirled, with the rest of the glitteringcrowd,From the banks of the river Euphrates. Now all of the wonderful things that befellAt the end of the journey, I really cant tell, «9°S-] THE FISHER-BOY OF THE EUPHRATES. 719 For the time, if we tried it, would fail us. He played for the king, and right merrily, too; Each room in the palace was big as a church, Yet—I know you will hardly believe it is trueAnd although for a window in vain you might That he had, with all this, search, There were portals a score,And beside every doorSuch a great winged bull as del
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