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What report shall he bear hence of your gentleness and culture to those dim and unjoyous shores beyond the gray green wall of ocean- billows, where the very name of Al-Kyris serves as a symbol for all that is great and wise and wondrous in the whole round circle of the world?
In short, to be in Al-Kyris, seemed to him quite in keeping with the necessary course of events, while to be the friend and companion of Sah-luma was more natural and familiar to his mind, than all once natural and familiar things.
With a few agile movements he succeeded in wrenching himself free from the grasp of his assailants, and standing among them like a stag at bay he cried: "What have I done? How have I offended? Speak! Or is it the fashion of Al-Kyris to condemn a man unheard?"
Of course he could easily repeat his boyhood's verses word for word, ... but what of that? He, a stranger in the city, befriended and protected by the Laureate, would certainly be considered by the people of Al-Kyris as far more likely to steal Sah-luma's thoughts than that Sah-luma should steal his!
There is no one living, . . at least not in the wide realm of Al-Kyris, who would put himself to the smallest inconvenience for the sake of another, were that other his nearest and dearest blood-relation.
"Unfamous as thou art, thou deservest honor for the frank confession of thy lack of merit! Believe me, there are some boastful rhymers in Al-Kyris who would benefit much by a share of thy becoming modesty!
Theos smiled, the grandiloquent manner of this self-important individual amused him. "Most worthy sir," he replied, "you form too favorable an opinion of my scholarly attainments! I am a stranger in Al-Kyris, and know naught of its educational system, or the interior mechanism of its wondrous civilization!
Were Al-Kyris besieged by a thousand enemies, and these strong palace-walls razed to the ground by the engines of warfare, we would ourselves defend Sah-luma! aye, even cry aloud in the heat of combat that he, the Chief Minstrel of our land, should be sheltered from fury and spared from death, as the only one capable of chronicling our vanquishment of victory!"
The same feverish impatience was upon him impatience that he was conscious of, yet could not account for, his fancy busied itself with a whole host of memories, and fragments of half-forgotten love-songs he had written in his youth, came back to him without his wish or will, songs that he instinctively felt belonged to his Past, when as "Sah-luma" he had won golden opinions in Al-Kyris.
Here too he had met Sah-luma, . . ah Heaven! how many things had happened since then! ... how much he had seen and heard! ... Enough, at any rate, to convince him, that the men and women of Al-Kyris were more or less the same as those of other great cities he seemed to have known in far-off, half-forgotten days, that they plotted against each other, deceived each other, accused each other falsely, murdered each other, and were fools, traitors, and egotists generally, after the customary fashion of human pigmies, that they set up a Sham to serve as Religion, Gold being their only god, that the rich wantoned in splendid luxury, and wilfully neglected the poor, that the King was a showy profligate, ruled by a treacherous courtesan, just like many other famous Kings and Princes, who, because of their stalwart, martial bearing, and a certain surface good-nature, manage to conceal their vices from the too lenient eyes of the subjects they mislead, and that finally all things were evidently tending toward some great convulsion and upheaval possibly arising from discontent and dissension among the citizens themselves, or, likelier still, from the sudden invasion of a foreign foe, for any more terrific termination of events did not just then suggest itself to his imagination.
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