SubTitle("caps", "The Wishing Carpet") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My rug lies under the candle-light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flame-red, sea-blue, leaf-brown, gold-bright,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Born of the shifting ancient sand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Of a far-away desert land.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There in Haroun al Raschid's day", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A carpet enchanted, their wise men say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was woven for princes, in realms apart—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "And so is this rug of my heart!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here is a leaf like the heart of a rose,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And here the shift in the pattern shows", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How another weft in the tireless loom", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Set the gold of the skies a-bloom.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Old songs, old legends and ancient words", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They weave in the web as they pasture their herds", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the barren slopes of a mountain height", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "In the dusk of the lonely night.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Prayers and memories and wordless dreams,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Changeful shadows and lancet gleams,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Eden Tree in its folding wall", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Knows them and guards them all.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To Moussoul market the rug they brought", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With all its treasure of woven thought,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thus over half a world of sea", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Came the Wishing Rug to me.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>