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GIFT OF HARUN AL-RASHID

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And yet herself can seem youth's very fountain,

Being all brimmed with life.'

'Were it but true

I would have found the best that life can give,

Companionship in those mysterious things

That make a man's soul or a woman's soul

Itself and not some other soul.'

'That love

Must needs be in this life and in what follows

Unchanging and at peace, and it is right

Every philosopher should praise that love.

But I being none can praise its opposite.

It makes my passion stronger but to think

Like passion stirs the peacock and his mate,

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