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30<br />

SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT<br />

The monster from the oozy bed,<br />

And bounded through the crashing glades.<br />

—But now a staring savage head<br />

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

This was a naked Indian,<br />

Who led within the city gate<br />

The fooled and disappointed man,<br />

Already broken by his fate.<br />

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

The scupltured rocks, the marble shrine<br />

Where to a tall black stone they rear<br />

The altars due to the divine.<br />

The God they 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 other climes and men<br />

Makes off that strong, persistent fool<br />

Sir Palamede the Saracen.

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