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PREFACEto Emaux et CameesThe Empire at war, and brutallyAngry guns roared; yet. Goethe wroughtHis East-West Divan undistraught—Cool oasis where art breathes free.Shakespeare he left for Nisami,Scented with sandalwood his thought.In Oriental metre caughtThe song Hudhud sighs plaintively.On his divan at Weimar, quiteDetached from actualities,He plucked rose-petals from Hafiz:And I, like him, windows shut tight.Ignored the hurricane's flailing blowsAnd wrought Enamels and Cameos.WESTERLY, No. 1 of 1967 29