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ARABIAN NIGHTS: DATES by ANONYMOUS

First Line: WE GROW TO THE SOUND OF THE WIND
Last Line: SHALL HEAR US MURMUR EVER ABOVE HIS SLEEP
Subject(s): DATE TREES;DEATH; "DEAD, THE;"

WE grow to the sound of the wind
Playing his flutes in our hair,

Palm tree daughters,
Brown flesh Bedouin,
Fed with light
By our gold father;

We are loved of the free-tented,
The sons of space, the hall-forgetters,
The wide handed, the bright-sworded
Masters of horses.

Who has rested in the shade of our palms
Shall hear us murmur ever above his sleep.



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