<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373422" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fantasia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here in Samarcand they offer emeralds,<br>Pure as frozen drops of sea-water,<br>Rubies, pale as dew-ponds stained with slaughter,<br>Where the fairies fought for a king's daughter<br>In the elfin upland.<br>Here they sell you jade and calcedony,<br>And the matrix of the turquoise,<br>Spheres of onyx held in eagles' claws,<br>But they keep the gems as far asunder<br>From the dull stones as the lightning from the thunder;<br>They can never come together<br>On the mats of Turkish leather<br>In the booths of Samarcand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here they sell you balls of nard and honey,<br>And squat jars of clarid butter,<br>And the cheese from Kurdistan.<br>When you offer Frankish money,<br>Then they scowl and curse and mutter,<br>Deep in Kurdish or Persan<br>For they want your heart out and my hand<br>In the booths of Samarcand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They would sell your heart's blood separate,<br>In a jar with a gold brim,<br>With a text of burning hatred<br>Coiled around the rim;<br>They would sell my hand upon a beam of teak wood,<br>In the other scale a feather curled;<br>They would sell your heart upon a silver balance<br>Weighed against the world.<br>But your heart could never touch my hand,<br>They could never come together<br>On the mats of Turkish leather<br>In the booths of Samarcand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Duncan+Campbell+Scott">Duncan Campbell Scott</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=373422" data-title="Fantasia de Duncan Campbell Scott" data-description="Here in Samarcand they offer emeralds, Pure as frozen drops of sea-water, Rubies, pale as dew-ponds stained with slaughter, Where the fairies fought for a king's daughter In the elfin upland. Here they sell you jade and calcedony, And the matrix o..."></div> </div> </div>

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