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POTIPHAR'S WIFE
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X.The forty carven columns round aboutShowed each some master-piece of subtle craft:A musk-deer here, in river-reeds, breathes out The very musk-scent from him: there, a waftOf bulrush-heads to the quick current bend,And the slow crocodiles to dry land wend
XI.Sunning wet scales. And, next, a gray fox watched—In syenite—doves on a tamarisk-tree Done out of a green rock. Wings and necks were matchedIn lazulite and moonstone—fair to see! Midway a dais mounted to a bed Of pearl and ebony, with soft cloths spread.
XII.Upon the alcove there, and all around Love tales were pictured: some swart lady wooed
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