LALLA ROOK H:

AN ORIENTAL ROMANCE.

BY THOMAS MOORE.

WITH SIXTY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY JOHN TENNIEL,
ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY THE BROTHERS DALZIEL ;

AND FIVE ORNAMENTAL PAGES OF PERSIAN DESIGN BY T. SULMAN, JUN.
ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY H. N. WOODS.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, & ROBERTS.

1861.

LALLA ROOKH.

ILLUMINATED TITLE-PAGE.

[From several ancient MSS. in the Library of the East India House.]

He was a youth about LALLA ROOKH's own age.

That Veiled Prophet of Khorassan

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There on that throne, to which the blind belief
Of millions rais'd him, sat the Prophet-Chief.

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All, all are there;-each Land its flower hath given,
To form that fair young Nursery for Heaven!
Believes the form, to which he bends his knee,
Some pure, redeeming angel, sent to free. .

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She saw that youth, too well, too dearly known,
Silently kneeling at the Prophet's throne.

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All fire at once the madd'ning zeal she caught;
Elect of Paradise! blest, rapturous thought!

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She swore, and the wide charnel echoed, "Never, never!".

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At length, with fiendish laugh, like that which broke
From EBLIS at the Fall of Man, he spoke.

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"Such the refin'd enchantress that must be
This hero's vanquisher,—and thou art she!".

He raised his veil-the Maid turn'd slowly round,
Look'd at him-shriek'd-and sunk upon the ground!
Now, through the Haram chambers, moving lights
And busy shapes proclaim the toilet's rites.
Young AZIM roams bewilder'd, -nor can guess
What means this maze of light and loneliness.

He sees a group of female forms advance.

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"Poor maiden!" thought the youth, "if thou wert sent.".

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