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SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT<br />

<strong>The</strong> monster from <strong>the</strong> oozy bed,<br />

And bounded through <strong>the</strong> crashing glades.<br />

—But now a staring savage head<br />

Lurks at him through <strong>the</strong> forest shades.<br />

This was a naked Indian,<br />

Who led within <strong>the</strong> city gate<br />

<strong>The</strong> fooled and disappointed man,<br />

Already broken by his fate.<br />

Here were <strong>the</strong> brazen towers, and here<br />

<strong>The</strong> scupltured rocks, <strong>the</strong> marble shrine<br />

Where to a tall black stone <strong>the</strong>y rear<br />

<strong>The</strong> altars due to <strong>the</strong> divine.<br />

<strong>The</strong> God <strong>the</strong>y deem in sensual joy<br />

Absorbed, and silken dalliance:<br />

To please his leisure hours a boy<br />

Compels an elephant to dance.<br />

So majesty to ridicule<br />

Is turned. To o<strong>the</strong>r climes and men<br />

Makes off that strong, persistent fool<br />

Sir Palamede <strong>the</strong> Saracen.

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