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POTIPHAR'S WIFE
And from the garden and the colonnade A roofed way to the inner rooms was laid.
VIII.For inner chambers were there seven:—each fashionedWith matchless wit to make each goodlier Than that last seen. So, heart and eye, impassionedUnto the inmost passed, devised by her, High Asenath, for love's deep hiding-place, Beautiful, marvelous, all peace and grace.
IX.Through latticed loops Nile's cooling ripple came—Musical, lulling,—to that dim retreat Which had for light one silver lamp's faint flameBurning with fragrant oils before the feet Of Pasht, in speckled stone, Pasht with cat's head, And long arms on her levelled knees outspread.
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