THE RUIN OF THE BARMECIDES[33]

No, Barmec Time hath never shown

So sad a change of wayward fate;

Nor sorrowing mortals ever known

A grief so true, a loss so great.

Spouse of the world! Thy soothing breast

Did balm to every woe afford;

And now no more by thee caressed,

The widowed world bewails her lord.

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