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First Line: Dark-browed sailor, tell me now
Last Line: Ah, heart-beguiling araby!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter


'Dark-browed Sailor, tell me now,
Where, where is Araby?
The tide's aflow, the wind ablow,
'Tis I who pine for Araby.'

'Master, she her spices showers
O'er nine and ninety leagues of sea;
The laden air breathes faint and rare --
Dreams on far-distant Araby.'

'Oh, but Sailor, tell me true;
'Twas Man who mapped this Araby;
Though dangers brew, let me and you
Embark this night for Araby. . . .'

Wails the wind from star to star;
Rock the loud waves their dirge: and, see!
Through foam and wrack, a boat drifts back:
Ah, heart-beguiling Araby!





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