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Constantinople - The Greek Han

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A sunny court with wooden balconies,         And wool hung out to dry in gaudy skeins,         A fountain, and some pigeons murmuringly         Picking up yellow grains.         Pass through a little tumble-down green door         Into the dark and crowded shop; the Turk         Crouching above the brasier, smiles and nods;         'Tis all his daily work.         Here marble heads and alabaster jars,         Fragments of porphyry and Persian tiles,         Lie heaped in ruin, and at our dismay         The old Turk shrugs and smiles,         And sips his coffee, reaching out a hand         To throw upon the brasier at his feet         A handful of dried herbs, whose sudden smoke         Rises up incense-sweet.

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