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Of braided blooms unmown, which crept
Adown to where the waters slept.
A goodly place, a goodly time,
For it was in the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid.
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Ridged the smooth level, bearing on
My shallop through the star-strown calm.
Until another night in night
I enter'd, from the clearer light,
Imbower'd vaults of pillar'd palm.
Imprisoning sweets, which, as they clomb
Heavenward, were stay'd beneath the dome
Of hollow boughs.—A goodly time,
For it was in the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid.
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Is rounded to as clear a lake.
