American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . A Maiden of Babylon. PHOTO-ETCHING FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING BY EDWIN L. WEEKS. This charming dark-eyed girl feeding her pretty gazelles on the terrace of an Oriental garden isan interesting type of Eastern beauty. See with what tender grace she offers a dainty morsel to theusually timorous creature, which seems to have the utmost confidence in her good-will. We trust thatshe never will have occasion to say (to quote from Moores Fire-Worshippers ) : — I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft blaek eye,But w
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . A Maiden of Babylon. PHOTO-ETCHING FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING BY EDWIN L. WEEKS. This charming dark-eyed girl feeding her pretty gazelles on the terrace of an Oriental garden isan interesting type of Eastern beauty. See with what tender grace she offers a dainty morsel to theusually timorous creature, which seems to have the utmost confidence in her good-will. We trust thatshe never will have occasion to say (to quote from Moores Fire-Worshippers ) : — I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft blaek eye,But when it came to know me well,And love me, it was sure to die.
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