Text Appearing Before Image: Recollections of The Arabian Nights. Drawn by W. St. John Harper. 42 AMERICAN ART Text Appearing After Image: Recollections of The Arabian Nights. Drawn by W. St. John Hafper. Black the garden-bowers and grotsSlumberd : the solemn palms were rangedAbove, unwood of summer wind :A sudden splendor from behindFlushd all the leaves with rich gold-green,And, flowing rapidly betweenTheir interspaces, counterchangedThe level lake with diamond-plots Of dark and bright. A lovely time,For it was in the golden primeOf good Haroun Alraschid. Then stole I up, and trancedlyGazed on the Persian girl alone,Serene with argent-lidded eyesAmorous, and lashes like to raysOf darkness, and a brow of pearlTressed with redolent ebony,In many a dark delicious curl,Flowing beneath her rose-hued zone;The sweetest lady of the time,Well worthy of the golden primeOf good Haroun Alraschid. AMERICAN ART 43 Still engaged in the pleasanttask of wedding fair pictures tosweet poetry, we find some de-lightful fancies interlaced in thelines of Thomas Hoods FairInes. Oh, saw ye not fair Ines ?Shes gone into.the WestTo dazzle when t
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