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POTIPHAR'S WIFE
And from the garden and the colonnade
A roofed way to the inner rooms was laid.
A roofed way to the inner rooms was laid.
VIII.
For inner chambers were there seven:—each fashioned
With matchless wit to make each goodlier
Than that last seen. So, heart and eye, impassioned
Unto the inmost passed, devised by her,
High Asenath, for love's deep hiding-place,
Beautiful, marvelous, all peace and grace.
For inner chambers were there seven:—each fashioned
With matchless wit to make each goodlier
Than that last seen. So, heart and eye, impassioned
Unto the inmost passed, devised by her,
High Asenath, for love's deep hiding-place,
Beautiful, marvelous, all peace and grace.
IX.
Through latticed loops Nile's cooling ripple came—
Musical, lulling,—to that dim retreat
Which had for light one silver lamp's faint flame
Burning with fragrant oils before the feet
Of Pasht, in speckled stone, Pasht with cat's head,
And long arms on her levelled knees outspread.
Through latticed loops Nile's cooling ripple came—
Musical, lulling,—to that dim retreat
Which had for light one silver lamp's faint flame
Burning with fragrant oils before the feet
Of Pasht, in speckled stone, Pasht with cat's head,
And long arms on her levelled knees outspread.
