CONTENTS.

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Richard Chenevix Trench
POEMS FROM EASTERN SOURCES.
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ALEXANDER AT THE GATES OF PARADISE.—A LEGEND FROM THE TALMUD 3
CHIDHER’S WELL 11
THE BANISHED KINGS 14
THE BALLADS OF HAROUN AL RASCHID:
??I.—THE SPILT PEARLS
?II.—THE BARMECIDES
III.—THE FESTIVAL		 ?
20
24
35
THE EASTERN NARCISSUS 41
THE SEASONS:
??I.—WINTER
?II.—SPRING
III.—SUMMER
IV.—AUTUMN		 ?
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46
49
52
MOSES AND JETHRO 55
PROVERBS, TURKISH AND PERSIAN 60
“THE GOOD THAT ONE MAN FLINGS ASIDE” 64
LOVE 67
THE FALCON 69
LIFE THROUGH DEATH:
??I.—“A PAGAN KING TORMENTED FIERCELY ALL”
?II.—“A DEW-DROP FALLING ON THE WILD SEA WAVE”
III.—“THE SEED MUST DIE, BEFORE THE CORN APPEARS”		 ?
71
73
74
THE WORLD 75
THE MONK AND SINNER 78
“WHAT, THOU ASKEST, IS THE HEAVEN, AND THE ROUND EARTH AND THE SEA” 81
THE SUPPLIANT 84
THE PANTHEIST; OR, THE ORIGIN OF EVIL 87
GHAZEL 90
THE RIGHTEOUS OF THE WORLD 91
MAXIMS 94
THE FALCON’S REWARD 96
THE CONVERSION OF ABRAHAM 101
SONNET 103
THE DEAD DOG 104
“FAIR VESSEL HAST THOU SEEN WITH HONEY FILLED” 106
FRAGMENTS:
??I.—THE CERTAINTY OF FAITH
?II.—MAN’S TWOFOLD NATURE
III.—SCIENCE AND LOVE
IV.—“THE BUSINESS OF THE WORLD IS CHILD’S PLAY MERE”
?V.—“SAGE, THAT WOULD’ST MAKER OF THINE OWN GOD BE”
VI.—“MAN, THE CAGED BIRD THAT OWNED AN HIGHER NEST”		 ?
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113
NOTES TO THE POEMS FROM EASTERN SOURCES 115
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THE STEADFAST PRINCE:
PART I.
PART II.		 ?
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152
ORPHEUS AND THE SIRENS 173
ST. CHRYSOSTOM 184
THE OIL OF MERCY 185
THE TREE OF LIFE.—FROM THE GERMAN OF RÜCKERT 192

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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