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nd here, assembled cross-legg'd round their trays, Small social parties just begun to dine ;Pilaus and meats of all sorts met the gaze. And flasks of Samian and of Chian wine,And sherbet cooling in the porous vase ; Above them their dessert grew on its vine,The orange and pomegranate nodding o'erDropp'd in their laps, scarce pluck'd, their mellow store. DON JUAN. 123 XXXII, A band of children, round a snow-white ram,There wreathe his venerable horns with flowers ; While peaceful as if still an unwean'd lamb,The patriarch of the flock all gently cowers His sober head, majestically tame. Or eats from out the palm, or playful lowers His brow, as if in act to butt, and then. Yielding to their small hands, draws back again.
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