Unconscious sigh—he laid him down to sleep.
Thus he reclining slept, and, oh! the joy
That in his dreams possess’d the happy Boy—
Composed of all he knew, and all he read,
Heard, or conceived, the living and the dead.
The Caliph Haroun, walking forth by night
To see young David and Goliath fight, 670
Rose on his passive fancy—then appear’d
The fleshless forms of beings scorn’d or fear’d
By just or evil men—the baneful race