THE WORLD’S UNAPPRECIATION.
The lyrical poems of the East called Ghazels, of which the following, from Trench, is a brief specimen, have this peculiarity,—that the first two lines rhyme, and for this rhyme recurs a new one in the second line of each succeeding couplet, the alternate lines being free:—
What is the good man and the wise?
Ofttimes a pearl which none doth prize;
Or jewel rare, which men account
A common pebble, and despise.
Set forth upon the world’s bazaar,
It mildly gleams, but no one buys,
Till it in anger Heaven withdraws
From the world’s undiscerning eyes,
And in its shell the pearl again,
And in its mine the jewel, lies.