Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878/The Cupbearer

The Cupbearer.

(From the Arabic.)

Come, Leila, fill the goblet up,
Reach round the rosy wine,
Think not that we will take the cup,
From any hand but thine.
A draught like this 'twere vain to seek,
No grape can such supply,
It steals its tint from Leila's cheek,
Its brightness from her eye.