A Bedouin Arab found sand-strangled bones,

A skeleton, vulture-torn, fierce in whose skull

One eyeball blazed—the diamond. At Aleppo

Bartered ... a bauble for his desert love.)

Jacinth and Indian pearl, gem heaped on gem,

Flashed, rutilating in the taper's light,—

Unearthly splinters of a rainbowed flame,—

A blaze of irised fire; and his face,

Long-haired, white-sunk among them. And I took

All! yea! all! all!—jewel and gold and gem!—