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HAFIZ IN LONDON


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HAFIZ IN LONDON

by

JUSTIN HUNTLY McCARTHY, M.P.


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London
Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly
1886

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_DEDICATION._


  Ferangis, at thy feet I lay
    These roses from the haunted coast
    Of Faristan, whose poets boast
  Their Rocknabad and Mosellay;
  For I was in Shiraz to-day,
    With ancient Hafiz for my host,
    Who, like a comfortable ghost,
  With Persian roses crowned my stay.
  They are thy tribute from the land
    Of Khayyam and our Khalifate,
    For on their crimson folds of fate
  A wizard ciphered with his wand
    Words which I dare not here translate,
  But you will read and understand.




_CONTENTS._


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