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"Who curse the hour your Arabs came "To desolate our shrines of flame,

"And swear, before God's burning eye, "To break our country's chains, or die! "Thy bigot sire,-nay, tremble not,

"He, who gave birth to those dear eyes, "With me is sacred as the spot

"From which our fires of worship rise! "But know—'twas he I sought that night, "When, from my watch-boat on the sea, "I caught this turret's glimmering light, "And up the rude rocks desperately "Rushed to my prey-thou know'st the rest"I climbed the gory vulture's nest,

"And found a trembling dove within ;—

"Thine, thine the victory-thine the sin

"If Love hath made one thought his own,

"That Vengeance claims first-last-alone!

"O! had we never, never met,

"Or could this heart ev'n now forget

"How linked, how blessed we might have been,

"Had fate not frowned so dark between!

"Hadst thou been born a Persian maid,

"In neighbouring valleys had we dwelt, "Through the same fields in childhood played, "At the same kindling altar knelt,

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"Then, then, while all those nameless ties,
"In which the charm of Country lies,
"Had round our hearts been hourly spun,
"Till IRAN'S cause and thine were one;
"While in thy lute's awakening sigh
"I heard the voice of days gone by,
"And saw, in every smile of thine,
"Returning hours of glory shine;—

"While the wronged Spirit of our Land

"Lived, looked, and spoke her wrongs through

thee,

"God! who could then this sword withstand?

"Its very flash were victory!

"But now, estranged, divorced for ever,

"Far as the grasp of Fate can sever;

"Our only ties what Love has wove,—

“In faith, friends, country, sundered wide;

"And then, then only, true to love,

"When false to all that's dear beside!

"Thy father IRAN's deadliest foe

"Thyself, perhaps, ev'n now-but no—
"Hate never looked so lovely yet!
"No-sacred to thy soul will be

"The land of him who could forget

"All but that bleeding land for thee. "When other eyes shall see, unmoved,

"Her widows mourn, her warriors fall,

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