Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878/Song of an Arabian Girl

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Song of an Arabian Girl.
Ah! would I were in Araby!
For every splendour here I see
Is far less lovely—far less fair
Than Nature's simplest treasures there.

There, mid the burning desert's waste,
The crystal fount how sweet to taste;
The cooling shade of palmy tree
How welcome in bright Araby.

There the fierce sun shoots from his ray
A blaze of glory o'er the day;
And moon and stars at soothing night
Shed beams of softer, holier light.

But, ah! beyond e'en charms like these,
An Arab maiden's heart to please,
My love is there!—to him I'd flee,
And live and die in Araby.

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