But on the seventh, casting stupor off,

Rose, and the straitness of the case, that held

Him as with manacles of knitted fire,

Considered—and decided on a way....

Once when Eddetma with an houri band

Of high-born damsels, under eunuch guard,

In the walled palace pleasaunce took her ease,

Under a myrrh-bush by a fountain side,—

Where marble Peris poured a diamond rain

In scooped cornelian,—one, a dim, hoar head,—