Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AFTER READING HASSAN: 2, by CHARLES WILLIAMS


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AFTER READING HASSAN: 2, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And thou, no negro but a slender moor
Last Line: Return, mesrour; return, return, mesrour!
Subject(s): Friendship


And thou, no negro but a slender Moor,
Turbaned and mailed and armed against disaster—
What child was Giafar that could be Mesrour?
Or who was Caliph, but that he was master?
No executioner of bloody rites,
But Haroun's friend, his warrior and warden,
And his companion through those secret nights
In many an odorous room or lamp-lit garden!
And, more than all, thy unknown title, heard
As of rich strangeness a more rich reflection,
'Mesrour the eunuch'—O romantic word
Clothing thee in mysterious perfection!
Now, ere late truth tread the enchanted floor,
Return, Mesrour; return, return, Mesrour!





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