<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354821" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Dream of the Orient</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a resplendent Eastern bride, <br>Like a houri at my side, <br> And music round us swelling, <br>’Mid odours of so rare a steam <br>That like a breath of love they seem, <br>Dwell I through a radiant dream <br> In an orient dwelling. <br>Near a fair fountain flashing high <br>In the pleasure court we lie, <br> Each on a gorgeous pillow; <br>The columned water mounting breaks <br>In outward curves and falling flakes, <br>Till the whole a picture makes <br> Of a crystal willow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wide round us galleried walls extend, <br>Pierced with arcs and aisles that bend <br> On wreathen pillars slender; <br>While hung in every vista—lo! <br>Such clouds of blazoned banners glow <br>As in very semblance show <br> A constant sunset splendour. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And virgin faces, darkly bright <br>Like the countenance of night <br> Seen in its starry glory, <br>All ministrant, around us throng, <br>And breathe their pathos into song, <br>Or in tones as rich prolong <br> Some wild melodious story. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till, hark! Through many voices, one <br>Like a gush of gold doth run— <br> “Why, why should kindred sever? <br>Our life is this perpetual feast <br>Of being, from all care released— <br>Sunny souls are for the East; <br> Then dwell with us for ever.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Harpur">Charles Harpur</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354821" data-title="A Dream of the Orient de Charles Harpur" data-description="With a resplendent Eastern bride, Like a houri at my side, And music round us swelling, ’Mid odours of so rare a steam That like a breath of love they seem, Dwell I through a radiant dream In an orient dwelling. Near a fair fountain fla..."></div> </div> </div>

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