 | Poems by Henry Septimus Sutton |  |
ALADDIN.
To take the ring humility, and use,
Becomes thee not, Aladdin, to refuse,
No matter though thine enemy it be
By whom that true self-knowledge comes to thee;
Nor shalt thou scorn into the vault to go;—
For thee the lamp of wisdom lies below.
Becomes thee not, Aladdin, to refuse,
No matter though thine enemy it be
By whom that true self-knowledge comes to thee;
Nor shalt thou scorn into the vault to go;—
For thee the lamp of wisdom lies below.
Pluck thou the fruits that grow on either hand,
Although as yet thou mayst not understand
Their real nature. To thy present sense
Each seems, perhaps, a vain experience,
But thou to-morrow each a gem shalt see
Cheapening the sultan's signet-ring to thee.
Although as yet thou mayst not understand
Their real nature. To thy present sense
Each seems, perhaps, a vain experience,
But thou to-morrow each a gem shalt see
Cheapening the sultan's signet-ring to thee.
| Poems by Henry Septimus Sutton | |