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Poetical Sketches

With other poems. By Alaric A. Watts. Fourth Edition. Illustrated with engravings from designs by T. Stothard, R. A. and W. Nesfield

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There has been mourning in the Valley of Camels;—Desolation dwelleth in the Palace of the Emir; the lute and the ziraleet are silent in his halls; the dance and the revel have ceased;—the echoes of Israfil are no more; but hark to the wul-wulleh of Despair!