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Excerpt from The Last David, and Other PoemsThe King is fallen And the cry, caught up By them within, ¿ew like the wildfire, on Through the broad city to the Temple walls, And hung on Hinnom valley like a cloud.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolo...
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Excerpt from 'Umar of Nîshâpûr
Thou, Whom the whole world seeks in frenzy and fire of mind, Barren alike before Thee are rich and poor mankind.
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Excerpt from The Last David, and Other Poems
Warder (alone).
Weary am I, and heartsick. Night and day
Rolls on the din of battle, and the air
Is thick with cries of slaughter at the walls,
And death-groans in the streets, where the blue famine
Strikes down our people hourly, and plague runs
Through thin ranks of defenders, as a flash
Of lightning rending loftiest cedars down.
And worse than all, that bane of all our hope,
Unceasing faction...
