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And quick the ruddy (?) goblets move Sin in the tempting hour of love As down the West the Sun declines His disk a golden goblet shines To bathe in western water sent O’er the green fritted firmament As slow the dusky mists congeal Their magic lines of fate reveal Their freckled character which lie Obscure along the evening sky Like a lion for the chace[msp] Upstarts the moon with sanguine face And tell the raven night be o’er Immerses fierce her claws in gore
When evening set in she ordered her car in which having seated herself with Melech Mohammed attended with innumerable torches they set out for the garden of the Shah. In a moment they had entered the gate and were traversing the garden; they proceeded to the brink of the reservoir and there having seated themselves they passed the goblet jovially round till half the night was spent. Then they remounted the car, returned to the place in an instant and retired to their chouches of repose again Melech Mohammed rested
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