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Orval, or The Fool of Time

And Other Imitations and Paraphrases. By Robert Lytton

Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton (1831-1891)

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XXIX.FATIMA AND MEHMED.

Beneath a milk-white almond tree,
Fatima and Mehmed be.
The black earth is their bridal bed;
The thick-starrèd sky clear-spread
Is their coverlet all the night,
As they lie in each other's arms so white.
The grass is full of honey-dew;
The crescent moon, that glimmers through
The unrippled leaves, is faint and new:
And the milk-white almond blossoms
All night long fall on their bosoms.