CANTO THE SECOND XI |
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CANTO THE SECONDXI
"Oh! not my brother! — yet unsay —
God! am I left alone on earth
To mourn — I dare not curse the day
That saw my solitary birth?
Oh! thou wilt love me now no more!
My sinking heart foreboded ill;
But know me all I was before,
Thy sister — friend — Zuleika still.
Thou ledd`st me hear perchance to kill;
If thou hast cause for vengeance see
My breast is offer`d — take thy fill!
Far better with the dead to be
Than live thus nothing now to thee;
Perhaps far worse, for now I know
Why Giaffir always seem`d thy foe;
And I, alas! am Giaffir`s child,
Form whom thou wert contemn`d, reviled.
If not thy sister — wouldst thou save
My life, oh! bid me be thy slave!"
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