SubTitle("caps", "The Biographer") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The little green lizard on Solomon's wall", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Basked in the gold of a shimmering noon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heard the insistent, imperious call", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Of hautboy and tabor and loud bassoon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Balkis passed by, with her alien grace,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the light of wonder upon her face,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To sit by the King in his lofty hall,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the little green lizard saw it all.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The little green lizard on Solomon's wall", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Waited for flies the long day through,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While the craftsmen came at the monarch's call", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "To the task that was given each man to do,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the Temple rose with its cunning wrought gold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cedar and silver, and all it could hold", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In treasure of tapestry, silk and shawl,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the little green lizard observed it all.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The little green lizard on Solomon's wall", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Heard what the King said to one alone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Secrets that only the Djinns may recall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Graved on the Sacred, Ineffable Stone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yet, when the little green lizard was led", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To speak of the King, when the King was dead,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He had only kept count of the flies on the wall,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For he was but a lizard, after all!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>