<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507124" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Manticor In Arabia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(The manticors of the montaines<br>Mighte feed them on thy braines.--Skelton.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Thick and scented daisies spread<br>Where with surface dull like lead<br>Arabian pools of slime invite<br>Manticors down from neighbouring height<br>To dip heads, to cool fiery blood<br>In oozy depths of sucking mud.<br>Sing then of ringstraked manticor,<br>Man-visaged tiger who of yore<br>Held whole Arabian waste in fee<br>With raging pride from sea to sea,<br>That every lesser tribe would fly<br>Those armed feet, that hooded eye;<br>Till preying on himself at last<br>Manticor dwindled, sank, was passed<br>By gryphon flocks he did disdain.<br>Ay, wyverns and rude dragons reign<br>In ancient keep of manticor<br>Agreed old foe can rise no more.<br>Only here from lakes of slime<br>Drinks manticor and bides due time:<br>Six times Fowl Phoenix in yon tree<br>Must mount his pyre and burn and be<br>Renewed again, till in such hour<br>As seventh Phoenix flames to power<br>And lifts young feathers, overnice<br>From scented pool of steamy spice<br>Shall manticor his sway restore<br>And rule Arabian plains once more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Graves">Robert Graves</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=507124" data-title="Manticor In Arabia de Robert Graves" data-description="(The manticors of the montaines Mighte feed them on thy braines.--Skelton.) Thick and scented daisies spread Where with surface dull like lead Arabian pools of slime invite Manticors down from neighbouring height To dip heads, to cool fiery bloo..."></div> </div> </div>

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