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Queen Djenira

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When Queen Djenira slumbers through         The sultry noon's repose,      From out her dreams, as soft she lies,         A faint thin music flows.      Her lovely hands lie narrow and pale         With gilded nails, her head      Couched in its banded nets of gold         Lies pillowed on her bed.      The little Nubian boys who fan         Her cheeks and tresses clear,      Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful voices         Seem afar to hear.      They slide their eyes, and nodding, say,         "Queen Djenira walks to-day      The courts of the lord Pthamasar         Where the sweet birds of Psuthys are."      And those of earth about her porch         Of shadow cool and grey      Their sidelong beaks in silence lean,         And silent flit away.

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