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canst, but carry it into the brilliant saloon, and
her sentence of death is annulled in the sweet,
absolving charmant!
Mighty annihilator and elevator! – the
newspapers’ Zeus – thou weekly, monthly, and daily
journals’ Jupiter, shake not thy locks in anger!
Cast not thy lightnings forth, if Scherezade
sing otherwise than thou art accustomed to
in thy family, or if she go without a suite of
thine own clique. Do not behead her!
We will see one figure more – the most dangerous
of them all; he with the praise on his
lips, like that of the stormy river’s swell – the
blind enthusiast. The water in which Scherezade
dipped her fingers, is for him a fountain of
Castalia; the throne he erects to her apotheosis
beeomes her scaffold.
This is the poet’s symbol – paint it:
"THE SULTAN AND SCHEREZADE."
But why none of the worthier figures – the
candid, the honest, and the beautiful? They
come also, and on them Scherezade fixes her
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