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  • Bedouin Love Song

    From The Birmingham Age-Herald, February 6, 1913.
     By Bayard Taylor.
     
    
     From the desert I come to thee,
     On a stallion shod with fire;
     And the winds are left behind
     In the speed of my desire.
     Under thy window I stand,
     And the midnight hears my cry;
     I love thee, I love thee,
     With a love that shall not die
     Till the sun grows cold,
     And the stars are old,
     And the leaves of the judgement
     Book unfold!
     
     Look from thy window, and see
     My passion and my pain;
     I lie on the sands below,
     And I faint in thy disdain.
     Let the night winds touch thy brow
     With the heat of my burning sigh
     And melt thee to hear the vow
     Of a love that shall not die
     Till the sun grows cold,
     And the stars are old,
     And the leaves of the judgement
     Book unfold!
     
     My steps are nightly driven
     By the fever in my breast,
     To hear from the lattice breathed
     The word that shall give me rest.
     Open the door of thy heart,
     And open thy chamber door,
     And my kisses shall teach thy lips
     The love that shall fade no more
     Till the sun grows cold,
     And the stars are old,
     And the leaves of the judgement
     Book unfold!