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The traveler, as he paceth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her, Who builded them? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness, and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and her glory hath vanished as a phantasma. Her youthful days are over, and her face hath become wrinkled and tetric.
"Sing to us, O Rashaa," quoth he; so she played a lively measure and sang these couplets, "And wand-like Houri, who can passion heal * Like young gazelle that paceth o'er the plain: I drain this wine cup on the toast, her cheek, * Each cup disputing till she bends in twain Then sleeps the night with me, the while I cry * 'This is the only gain my Soul would gain! "
Then that small voice made a word and said: "Why paceth the fool up and down our hall, doing nothing, even as the Ravens flap croaking about the crags, abiding the war-mote and the clash of the fallow blades?" Said Hallblithe, and his voice sounded big in the hall: "Who calleth Hallblithe a fool and mocketh at the sons of the Raven?"
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