. The book of ballads . <Sg^«Si -—f«f^f lu2 THE BOOK OF BALLADS. <^n \ ir. (tljp (inbijs Dnagjitrr. 3 iLfQcnD of tl)r ^ospiioTus. How beauteous is the star of m^\\. Within the eastern skies,Like the twinkling g-lance of the Toorkraans glance, Or the antelopes azure eyes!A lamp of love in the heaven above. That star is fondly streaming;And the gay kiosk and the shadowy mosque In the Golden Horn are gleaming. ^ €=-=^j^ THE BOOK OF BALLADS. 153 Young Leila sits in her jasmine bower, And she hears the bulbul sing-,As it thrills its throat to the first full note, That anthems the flowery spri
. The book of ballads . <Sg^«Si -—f«f^f lu2 THE BOOK OF BALLADS. <^n \ ir. (tljp (inbijs Dnagjitrr. 3 iLfQcnD of tl)r ^ospiioTus. How beauteous is the star of m^\\. Within the eastern skies,Like the twinkling g-lance of the Toorkraans glance, Or the antelopes azure eyes!A lamp of love in the heaven above. That star is fondly streaming;And the gay kiosk and the shadowy mosque In the Golden Horn are gleaming. ^ €=-=^j^ THE BOOK OF BALLADS. 153 Young Leila sits in her jasmine bower, And she hears the bulbul sing-,As it thrills its throat to the first full note, That anthems the flowery gazes still, as a maiden will, On that beauteous eastern star:You might see the throb of her bosoms sob Beneath the white cymar! She thinks of him, who is far away,— Her own brave Galiongee,—Where the billows foam and the breezes roam, On the wild Carpathian thinks of the oath, that bound them both Beside the stormy water ;And the words of love, that in Athens grove He spake to the Cadis daughter. My Selim! thus the maiden said, Though severed thus we be
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