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L.A.

VOU

I my nose
are a poet.
Grind at the humbler wheel
of prose,
But now and then I make a
stanza

What's that you say?

It does
not scan, Sir?
What then ? I may be Sancho
Panza,
But let not you on Rosinante
Despise my donkey's crude

andante.
Yours be the visions, yours the
fame,
I have my pleasure all the same
And though its not high poesy,
;

Lascelles,

its

good enough

for

LIST
I.

COLOUR PLATES

OF

"His

only thought was love and pride

In Princess Bedrelbood, his I) fide.
'

II.

The man was dressed

III.

"And

IV.

The Slave of
'

V.
VI.

in

yellow and black."

sobbing he sat under the tree.'

The Sultan

the

Lamp.

daughter, Bedrelbood."

"And twelve tall negroes, black as

And twelve tall slaves, Circassian,

"A

VII.

Of
VIII.

IX.

pig-tailed

"Of

all

"New

coals,

white."

crowd

Chinamen who bowed"

miraculous surprises"

lamps for old do I supply"

'

Tis

X.

little

The deeds of magic with a

'

XI.
XII.

The Magician struck

"He

good

to

chase

horse."

but his blows fell wide."

flung far out the talisman."

DDIN

HE

wind

blows

through the

bamboo wood,

The

coloured lanterns swing

and gleam,

And

sleeping Chinese children

dream
Of small Aladdin and

They know

his

his Djinns.

mother kind and good,

His slit-eyed princess Bedrelbood,

His lamp, his

The
And
And

ring, the kite

he had,

old magician cruel and bad,

all

that tale of Mandarins

ancient times.

ALADDIN
HE

tale begins

In an extremely simple way,

With small Aladdin

at

his

play,

In Pekin on a

Pekin

is

far

beyond the

summer

seas,

Where everyone

talks

Dresses in

gold and black,

And wears
Aladdin

satin,

a pigtail

in the

day.

good Chinese,

down

his back.

market square

Was flying a paper kite so high

He could not see that it was there
Above him
But

And

how

it

in the

burning sky.

tugged

dragged the

The wind grew

little

strong

boy along

Across the square and through the street

Where wise folk turned to see him run

And thought that he did this for fun,

And

laughed to see his twinkling

feet.

Now

near the roofs,

now on

the ground

He ran with perilous leap and bound,

And though he tugged with all his might
He very soon was out of sight.
For stronger grew the wind

until

Against the small Aladdin's will

He left the city far behind,

And ran and leapt until at last
He found himself
upon the
And dreadful desertf
of Shukind.

No

grass

no shady

No

flowers to

wandering

grows

there,

trees,

feast the

bees,

vast

ALADDI
There are no

No

horses,

cows or

donkey, goats, nor even frogs.

Aladdin's feet were tired.

And
The

He

slipped,

with a gust of wind had whipped

kite-string

For ever was

And

dogs,

from

his fingers.

Gone

his favourite toy,

in the desert all

alone

Aladdin sat upon a stone,

most unhappy

little

boy.

And then the sun turned blazing redThe dark swept up, and swift and loud,
And muttering like an angry crowd,
The wind went rushing overhead.
Aladdin hugged

And

sat

his

knees with fright

and shivered through the night.

The man was dressed

in yellow

and

black."

When

came he looked across

plain where he found he was,

morning

The stretching
And saw yellow

sand and rocks and

stones,

And

big black vultures picking

bones.

where

ALADDI
HE

little

boy never knew from

where

how he came

Or

be

to

standing there,

But when

he

turned

his

head he saw

man who had not been there before.

The man was dressed in yellow and
black,

An
His

old

man

clothes

with a crooked back.

were the

were made,
He wore on his finger a ring of

"Good morning,
how

"Do you come

now ? "

jade.

Aladdin," he said,

to be

where

ever

that

richest

"And

find

you

ALADDIN
LADDIN,

<

surprised to hear

his

name,
Stood up and said
"Please

"After

my

kite,

Sir,

which was

came

terribly

IsS

strong,
"

And bumped me and

bruised

me along,
me here and

me

and

dragged

"And

left

gone,

the kite

is

ALADDIN!
"And

all

through the night I've been

sitting

"A

alone

"
!

fortunate chance,"

said

the

crooked

old man,
"
"

can help you as no other person can

1 will

make you

rich.

great, I will

make you

ALADDIN
F you

up the
which
pull

stone

under the earth where

Is

now
"I will

flat

stand,

make you wealthy

in

houses

poor and begs

in the

and land."
"

My

mother

is

r^xr-i

street,

"And

never

is

certain of something

to eat.
"

Good

Sir, I'll

feed her and dress her

fine,

"And

give

pomegranates and

her

Chinese wine
"

And

build her a palace ever so big.

"

Kind

Sir,

good

to dig."

Sir,

show me where

&%'

The old man rubbed his hands. " Dig here,"

He said "Dig well, and then, my dear,
"You shall
^^^v clothe your
mother in V3 \ I
A \ silver and

^^

gold,

lALADDINgi
"And

give her the wealth

of

the

earth

to hold."

For the

old,

old

man was cunning and

bad,

And

Aladdin's

simplicity

made him

glad.

ALADDIN

LADDIN

digs

with his

little

hands,

And

scoops the earth

while the old man
stands,

with wickedness,
with greed,

Smiling

Smiling to see the

"

Why

here

is

little

smiling

hands bleed.

a ring," said Aladdin

at last,

"I cannot

move

it,

think

it

is

fast

"To
"

something else."
wicked old man,

Dig harder, my
you can."

dear,

Said

the

and perhaps

lALADDIN
|O Aladdin dug,

and

his

fingers

bled,

And

the

were over

He came
was under the

And
And

of

sides

the

hole

his head.

to the stone that

ring,

pulled and pulled like anything.

the

old

man

pulled and the earth

gave way,

And

the stone and the ring

where they

lay.

Under the stone was

As round

And

a deep dark hole,

as a well, as black as a coal,

far below, nearly out of sight,

Aladdin saw a flicker of

And
And

became loose

a scent of jasmin

light.

came from

the tinkling sound of a tiny

"Go down, go down," the

And gave Aladdin his ring

old

the well,
bell.

man

of jade.

said,

lALADDI

HIS

will

ring

from
It

is

all

keep
harm,

a very powerful

charm.
"

And where you see that

spark of

light,

You will find a garden summer-bright,

And gems like sand upon the shore,
More than you ever saw before,
And jewels growing on the trees
Pick as many as you please.
For you the gems, for me one thing,
And one alone 1 bid you bring.
A dingy lamp beneath the tree
From which the bell hangs
fetch to me.

ALADDIN
LADDIN

clambered

and
Into

down

fell,

the

darkness of

the well,

And when

he looked

his

eyes

were dazed,
All round

him precious jewels

blazed,

Ruby, turquoise,

chrysoprase,

Diamond, emerald and topaz,

Moonstone, sunstone, amethyst,

...

ALADDIN
No

clerk could ever end the

list.

There was a garden, emerald green,

With

pearls for

Diamonds

snowdrops

To

between.

for daisies, and a scent

Of jasmin, and he saw the

And

set

tree,

heard the bell and quickly went

where

The lamp

it

was and then could see

for

which he had been

sent.

ALADDIN
A common

lamp

of tarnished brass.

Dingy upon that emerald

Aladdin

filled his

grass.

coat with gems,

His baggy trousers to the hems

He

stuffed with stones.

He

almost

cried

To

see

what loads there were beside

take.

He

bent to

pick

lamp, and heard a voice,

"Be

He
He

o
o
o
o
o

hurried and looked up the well,

longed to climb, he longed to

tell

o
o
o
o
o
o
e
o
o

o
o

His mother of the things he'd seen,

How kind the old, old man

o
o
o
o
o
c

"

quick

ol

Those he could

The

had been.

o
o
o
o
e

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoOOOOOOOOOOOOO

o o O c o

ALADDI
|E climbed

and climbed, but near

the top

The

wall

was smooth, he had

to stop.

"Give

"Or

me

your hand, good

I shall fall

and break

Sir,

my

leg."

"Give me the lamp," the old man

And

then

I'll

help you up the side."

"Give me the lamp," he

"Give

me

the precious
lamp, I'm fain

"To

have

it

you should

"And

falling,

safe,

lest

fall,

break the

lamp and all."

Aladdin saw the

old

man's eyes,

And

they were squint-

ing evilwise.

beg,

said again,

cried

IALADDIN
E

said,

hold the lamp I've

"I'll

found
I'm

"Until

on

safely

the

ground."

"Give me the lamp, you wicked boy."

"Help, and

I'll

give

it

"Give me the lamp,

you with
I'll

joy."

help you then,

"Give, or you'll not want help again."

"I'll

hold

it till

you help me
This

out,"

did

the

small

Aladdin shout

The

old man,

very

much

Asked once

displeased,

again,

and

then he seized

The

stone

Aladdin

and
in.

shut

ALADDIN
PAY

with

your lamp," the old

man said,
"And how soe'er you

shout,

no din

"That you can make

Then black
\

will bring

you

aid."

with rage the old

man went

Away

to

t^S

another continent.

"And

sobbing he sat under the

tree.

lALADDIN
OW

sad

it

is,"

he

said,

know

"to

"That boy has got what

"I forego.
'Tis

That

his

by

that

right,

small

for
.

The magic lamp, //)

From far Morocco,^*

'tis

foretold

Chinese boy

shall

hold

and yet I'm come

where the drum

Bids to the

My home
4i

midday mosque, and

for

Aladdin has

it,

it,

and

now

'tis

fled

gone.

and alone

Within that well, below that stone,

It

comforts

me

to think

him dead."

II

LADDIN, when

he

saw

the

stone

Shut

him

in

darkness

all

alone,

Cried

little

and

tried

shout

And

To
To

going to the garden looked about

some other

find

secret

way

take him back to the Chinese day,

Where

the great sun shines in a yellow

sky,

And yellow Chinese go

For

he

was

Shukind,

afraid

hurrying by.
of

the

plain

of

ALADDI
ND

the big black birds

he had

And he
terror

left

behind,

with

shivered

and shook with

fright

As he thought

of those

old eyes eagle-bright,

Squinting
fierce

With

and

angry,

and keen,

a cruel and

wicked

old nose between.

lALADDIN
no opening; there
was none

|E could find

Except the well that was

closed by the stone.

Two

tears

big

came

out

and twinkled
In

his

slit

and

eyes,

his

mouth

round

wrinkled,

And sobbing he sat under the tree,

Where the little bell tinkled merrily.
He clasped his hands in grey despair,

When

was

a rushing in the

air,

flash of light, a quiver, a shock,

An

A
A

there

opening

smell of
great

in the solid rock,

fire,

Djinn

and, hot with speed,

bowed

and

asked

need.

Djinn, of course,

Ten

is

a kind of fairy,

times as large and not so

airy,

his

ALADDI
A monstrous creature with legs
And

breath like a hurricane, and eyes

Burning bright

And hands and

"Master," he

"To

like towers,

serve

like

huge sunflowers,

feet to

said,

match

"My

power

whoever rubs the

"The Ring,"
And pointed

his size.
I

bring

ring.

the monstrous creature said,

to the ring of jade.

iglALADDIN
Aladdin had rubbed

by mistake,
And he trembled when he saw
it

the Djinn

But bravely
44

Me

said,

back to

"She

lives

in

'I

beg you take

my mother in

Pekin

the smallest house

K
y

of all-

fi

ifa

"You
so

will

frighten

her by being

tall."

"Master," the monster

*ty

said,

*^p

"I do

^y*"^^^fl^*

^^j

*v^

''0J

*^*

ALADDI
4

Whatever you care to

"No

me

can see

one

tell

me

to.

but you,

for

Djinn

"Can

walk

and

crowds

through

be

unseen.

"And whenever you

rub your

ring

of

jade

"I'm your servant to do whatever I'm

bade.

"Now

master,

"You

will

if

you

see

will hold

your

held

on

to

tight,

mother

twilight."

Aladdin

on

the

before
,

Djinn's

great

shoulder,

And before he was half a second older

He was kissing his mother and telling his
tale.

The Slave of

the

Lamp.

lALADDINSI
IS

mother

shivered:

grew pale.
"Poor boy," she
"

And
"And

her

face

said,

have no meat,

since

yesterday

noon

you've had nothing to eat."

Then Aladdin remembered

the Slave of

the Ring.
"

Go

quickly,"

he

"
said,

and as quickly

bring

dinner of

fruit,

of fish and of beast.

ALADDIN
OR my

mother and

down
"I'm
^O O O

head

your

my

His mother
there's

dear,"
"

said,

nobody

For
here."

But while she was speaking a rushing

breeze
Lifted the rush-mats

And
a

was

there
noise

like

falling trees

And

something
came in, but

not by the door,

And

the

table

was

covered

with

platters

of gold

sit

to a feast."

afraid

upset

_<;

will

on the

floor,

is

lALADDINfiii
Piled as high

as the platters

could hold

With

fish

of the river and fish of

the sea

And

delicate

ates

meats and pomegran-

and grapes,

And all the fine spices of Araby.

And Aladdin smiles, and his mother
gapes.

"Aladdin!" she cried, "Aladdin!

Behold
"
Why even the chopsticks are made
!

of gold."

So mother and son

And when

sat

down and

fed,

they had eaten they went

to bed,

And woke

in the

to recite

morning and ran

ALADDI
To

each other the dream they had had

in

the night.

"Ah me

"

said the mother,

"

Oh

if

it

were

true.

"We
And

should be happy,
true

it

Laden with

More than

was, for the golden dishes

fruit

sat

And gave

When

all

and meat and

fishes,

to eat they had been able,

Lay with the

So they

and you!"

chopsticks on the table.

down without any

tit-bits

bother

to one another.

the food was done, they sold

One

of the platters

And
And

so they lived for

made

of gold,

two or three years

never quarrelled at

all,

the dears.

Aladdin forgot the Slave of the Ring

When

he

platters

saw how much

would bring.

money

the

ALADDIN
T

last

the platters were

all

of

them sold,
And his mother who needed
of

a piece of gold

To buy

some, more

decided to

food,

sell

The lamp

that her son had brought back

from the well.

lamp as ever was seen,

rub it and scrub it and make

"It's as dirty a

"But
it

I'll

clean

"And someone
price,

or other will give

me

its

"And

1*11

money and buy some

take the

rice,"

So she rubbed, and

matted

the

to

fell

floor

When

a roaring

wind knocked down the

door

And

the roof of

the

house shook over

her head

And a
"The

voice like thunder

Slave of the

came and

Lamp,

am

said

here to

do

"Whatever

service

you

set

me

to."

"If you," said the boy, "are the Slave of

the Ring,

"Another

feast I bid

you

But the Djinn looked

and smiled.

"The

bring."

down on Aladdin

Slave of the Ring," he said, "is a

child

"By

the side of me.

sky

Why

in

earth or

There

is

no other Djinn

as strong as

I.

you rub the lamp,

"If

"^ _
am

always

there.

"In water, fire, or earth, or air,

"To do your bidding. Food? he
cried.

"My
And

To

master

before
able

shall

be well supplied."

Aladdin's

mother was

from the floor

covered the table
rise

he

had

^vyy

With the

The

rarest fruits

rarest fish

and the rarest meats

and the rarest sweets,

In platters of gleaming gold that shone

Like the sun in the sky,

and then he

was gone.

And

When

so

Aladdin _*aa*.

the kite

blessed the day

'^WH:
'

far

away.

dragged him so

IALADDIN
And left him alone with birds and bones
And sandy desert and cold grey stones.
"Why even the cruel old man was kind,'

He

said,

"Why
"And

"in leaving

but for him

I

me

behind.

should be dead,

am warm and

well instead."

ALADDI
UT

far

away in
the Moors

Who

lived

in

the

land

of

white tents

out of doors,

The

old

man saw

in a

magic glass

Everything that had come to pass;

And his cruel eyes grew hard and cold.

He took his staff and a purse of gold
And started to walk to far Pekin

To

steal

from

^%^H

g^^^_

the lamp
Ala-Ed-Din.

.^^jTw S^fc^fW

Ill

HE

silver

moons

did

wax and

wane,

Grew round and

sickle-shaped

again,

And

cherry-blossom with

scent

Of Chinese spring-time came and went

Some fifteen times. That Chinese boy,
His mother's mainstay, hope and joy,

and black

Grew

up.

Hung

gallantly behind his back.

His

pig-tail thick

His mother too grew old, but she

its

ALADDIN!
Lived with Aladdin merrily,

And fed off gold and silver plate,

And went to bed early and got up late;
And both were as happy as happy could be,
Until Aladdin chanced to see

The

Sultan's daughter, Bedrelbood,

Who

was

With

coal-black eyes and blue-black hair,

as pretty as she

was good.

And smooth round cheeks as red as

And little hands with polished nails,
The snubbiest of snubby noses,

voice just like a nightingale's,

And

A
A

roses,

the clothes that Chinese ladies wear

gown with stalks upon it,

crown instead of a common bonnet,
The sweetest thing that was ever wooed
pale blue

Was

the Sultan's daughter, Bedrelbood.

lALADDIN

LADDIN "could

not sleep

or eat.

He

turned with loathing

from

He

his

could not touch the

His mother cooked

He wept and

in a

meat
little fish

golden dish;

sobbed and gave

his rice

To
He

feed the

broke

little

his

hungry mice.

chopsticks.

"Oh," he

said,

"

very

much wish

that

were dead,"

ALADDI
IS mother took a fan, and fanned

His woeful

and with

face,

her hand

She stroked

"Oh,
She
"

"You

said,

And why you

"For

that's

He took
and
it

tell

my

his

son,"

me what

are sad.

I will

you've done,

comfort you,

what Chinese mothers do."

^^^*5?W5^^
,,gg|

^1

pig-tail.

her hand

|^^^^>, held
lBW{7t&^^

tight.

ALADDIN
OTHER,"

he

"Your

said,

son caught sight

"

Of the

cannot

"The

eat,

Sultan's daughter

"Oh, mother,

"The

Sultan's daughter.

only

if

Sultan's

is

so sweet.

could

daughter,"

wed

Aladdin

said.

She

stroked
smiled :

"I do not see

"

his

pigtail

why

not,

and

my

she

child,

For you are lord of lamp and ring

"And capable of anything.

"And you are handsome, yes and
strong,

"And

never

have

done a thing

that's

c
o o

wrong.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOO

o o o

o o

ALADDIN
H,

my
"

Aladdin

As

is

quite as

good

the Sultan's daughter,

Bedrelbood

"
!

Oh, mother, mother, you

forget

"How

rigid

is

the etiquette.

"For a princess

it is

"To marry

than a mandarin,

less

a sin

"A mandarin with buttons of gold,

"A thousand slaves and a palace too,
"Why I could never be so bold
"As

"My
"

to ask her to live with

son,

my

Has got a

son,

pair of

me

and you."

no mandarin
monstrous Djinn.

you are a greater man than all

"With two such servants at your call.

"Why
"Fill

me

"With

that

bowl upon the

shelf

precious jewels, and, myself,

"The

Sultan' s daughter, Bedrelbood"

wHmim

fpsgri
'

'.V-

8 -"g

BWSfej

<

"I'll

drag along

"

And
"And
"

my

tired old

give the Sultan those precious stones,

tell

him that you want to wed

So

His daughter."

The lamp was

his

rubbed.

mother

Aladdin's mother took her

And winked

to

hid the bowl,

like

gar

a beg-

who

seeks

a dole,

She went to the

palace

and

waited about
the

Sultan

should

come

Until

out.

in.

staff,

make Aladdin

Under her rags she

said.

The mighty

Emptied the gleaming jewels

And,

bones

laugh.

Djinn

ALADDI
The Sultan came to take the air,
And saw the old woman standing there.
"Old woman," said he, "What can I do

"To
"

please the

Why,

weary old heart of you."

nothin"/r>

Aladdin's

mother
"

have
for

The

you

Sultan

present

From you

in

BB* W
^pSlSjr
SJ|
M ^^N
L

brought a present
instead."
"

laughed.'

for

me

your rags and your poverty

lALADDINSi
HE

answered,

"

present

from Ala-ed-Din,

"The
all

And

she

richest

man

in

Pekin."

offered

him

the

gleaming bowl

With every stone

like

fiery

coal.

Good woman, Good woman!

the Sultan
I

can

cries,

hardly

imperial eyes.

believe

my

lALADDI
"For of

"These

all

the

gems

in

all

the

earth

are the jewels of greatest worth.

What size, what colour, what a glow!

"From the Yang-tse-Kiang to the
Hoang-Ho
"There are many

rich

men, but with

all

their

thrift

aaaaaanaaDanaaannanaQa

could not buy such a magnificent

"They
gift.

"Who

woman bobbed

old

my

wonderful

the

Aladdin,

"

one ?

The

this

is

and

"
said,

He

is

son."

"Your son?"

said

"Why

the Sultan.

no

Chinee

"Has ever

sent such a present to me.

"Let him ask a boon.

that

There

is

nothing

"To

Aladdin the generous will deny."

The

old

woman bobbed

still

lower and

said,

"Oh

Sultan, he wishes that

"For he wishes
could

"Your

he were dead.

to marry, and

oh that he

daughter, the princess Bedrelbood."

"Aladdin's your son," the Sultan

said,

"And the Princess Bedrelbood must wed

"None but a princely Mandarin,

"And your

son

unknown

is

at

the court of Pekin."

"My

son,

Sultan,

is

by

far

"Richer than ever princes

"These

are
gems
thousand more

"

Would make no

are.

nothing,

difference to his

store."

The

Sultan weighed the bowl and

sighed.

"A

thousand gems

like these,"

he

not such wealth in

the land

"As

*s

i*;

cried,

"There

r* w

is

this

bowl

of

hold in

my

hand.

gems

"If your son can send

such bowls,

me

that

all

twelve

ALADDIN
"And twelve
"And twelve

tall

negroes, black as coals,

tall slaves,

Circassian, white,

"With another twelve bowls, why then

might

"Give Bedrelbood

The

old

woman

ried

for

hur-

as

quick
as she could

To

tell

Aladdin

to

rub the ring

Or the
order

Lamp
the

and
Djinn

to bring

The

price

Princess

bood.

of

the

Bedrel-

his

delight.

ALADD1
"Twenty-four slaves most richly
dressed,

"Twelve
the

white,

all

blackamoors

rest,

"And bowls

of jewels four

and

twenty
"Surely the monstrous Djinn has
plenty."

Aladdin rubbed the miraculous ring

And

the flapping of a mighty wing

Filled

the

room with

a howling

gale.
ooo oooOooc

"And
"And

twelve tall negroes, black as coals,

twelve tall slaves, Circassian, white.''

ALADDIN
LADDIN'S mother

turned

quite pale.

But the Djinn stood there,

"

Your

will,

my

lord,

"Shall be accomplished/*
the monster roared.

"Take to the Sultan

morrow at noon
"Twelve
as

is

to-

slaves as pale

the moon,

ALADDI
"And
"And

with them twelve as black as night,

fill

with jewels shining bright

"Twenty-four bowls.

The

slaves

must be

"All gorgeous with embroidery."

The

Djinn replied, "It shall be done."

There was a

flash,

and he was gone.

This compilation Phoenix E-Books UK

IV

noon the Sultan

The

gilded

sat within

palace

of

old

Pekin,

And

all

his

subjects passed

before him

To
To
To
To

worship him and to adore him,

say thank you and to implore him
lessen this one's poverty,

punish that one's treachery,

Or make

this

one a mandarin.

Before the throne there passed a crowd

Of

pig-tailed

And bumped

Chinamen who bowed

their

heads upon the ground.

ALADDIN!

UT

the

great

ffl^fc

Sultan

6Jr~i^^r^**\

looking

round,

Saw

Aladdin's mother standing in a corner,

Afraid lest the mandarins should scorn her.

The
"It

Sultan called to the timid old soul.

was you who gave me the precious

bqwl,

IALADDIN
"And you whose son
CLC
aspires to wed
"The Princess Bedrelbood," he said.
The old woman answered. "I am
'

'

the same,

"And

Bedrelbood

am come

to

claim."

"But where are the

and the slaves

The

Sultan

waves

jewels, the bowls,

"

asked.

Just

then

like

ALADDIN!
Beating upon a rocky shore,

The

noise of shouting rolled before

crowd

Up

that

marched with tramping din

to the palace of old Pekin.

"Behold!

What gems!

Behold!

What

kings
"

Are those

that

bear them

See the

rings
"

Upon their fingers Black and white

"
"
By Allah, what a glorious sight
!

Nearer the shouting came, and then

Into the palace.

Mighty men

With golden bowls upon their heads,

With gems in gleaming pyramids,
through the crowd.
throne

Strode

They

stood like statues

made

Like statues made of ebony,

And

statues

made

of ivory,

Before

of stone,

the

All draped in amethyst and gold

And monstrous like the giants

"My son who wishes now to be

"Thy

of

old.

son-in-law sends these to thee."

Aladdin's mother speaks and waves

Her hand, and the

gigantic slaves

Kneel down, and empty into a heap

Their bowls of jewels.

Bumped hard upon

and

said

Each

the ground

his

head

ALADDIN
|E

and the gems

are

thine

to

"Our master begs thee

fix

keep.

the day

"For the Princess to come

away

"And be his wife." The Sultan frowned

Then looked at the jewels on the ground.
"Go sound the trumpets, beat the gongs;
"The Princess Bedrelbood belongs
"

To

your young

"This very day

lord," the Sultan said

they be wed."

shall

Aladdin's mother ran to

Her son the news.

It

tell

pleased him well.

He took and rubbed the magic lamp,

The Djinn appeared in clouds of
Aladdin, urgent, swift did stamp

His foot.

"I see

my

So close before me.

"Remove

sweet desire
Quick,

these rags that

Djinn,

stand

in,

fire.

"
.4

Of

pig-tailed

Chinamen who

crowd
1

bowed.''

ALADDIN
"

Clothe

me

"I need to

magnificent
ride,

a horse

and slaves of

course,
"
44

And twenty thousand

Packed

"To

golden ducats,

in little silver buckets,

throw abroad among the crowd

"And make the people

"
Thy will is done," the
"See

in the mirror

very

much

glass,

astonished, was.

For he was clothed

And had
And he

Djinn replied,

I lied."

if

Aladdin looked into a

And

cry aloud."

a necklace

in

gold brocade,

made

of jade,

heard a mighty horse that

neighed

Out

in the street,

men

and the shouts of

And trampling feet, and

He heard them cry out,
"

drums, and then

"All Pekin

Waits for the Lord Ala-ed-Din."

Aladdin

And

his

mighty horse bestrode,

a hundred servants as he rode

Scattered

money out

of the buckets,

The twenty thousand golden ducats,

And so like a famous potentate
Aladdin rode to the Sultan's gate.

Of course the Sultan was there to meet him,

And

pleasantly did the Sultan greet him.

lALADDIN
"The wedding
"

We

"My

feast in

wait for you

most noble

lord,

daughter looks for you, and since

"She's a Princess,

make you

Aladdin leapt from

The

on the board,

his

Prince."

horse and kissed

Sultan's ring of amethyst.

"Father," he said, "I wish to give

"Your daughter

a palace

where we may

live.

"Show me

the ground where

may

"A

palace with a score of bays."

"If

you could

"<Be near

"No

my

greater

"Than

build

it

here

raise

could

daughter, Bedrelbood."
pleasure

could

thy august proximity.

there

be

lALADDI
OOK

from thy window

at

break

of day,
"

And thou
first

shalt see the sun's

ray

"Fall on the topmost minaret

"Of

the palace that shall there be set."

"Impossible," the Sultan sighed,

"But enter now, and greet your

And
The

thus Aladdin

bride."

wed and wooed

Sultan's daughter, Bedrelbood.

IRDS' nests

in

soup and yellow

snails,

Peaches and strawberries and

quails,

Roc's eggs on toast and oyster

And

jars

pies,

of potted dragonflies,

Everything wonderful and good

Was

the wedding-feast of Bedrelbood.

But while the golden chopsticks flashed,

And
And

Chinese goblets clinked and clashed,

all

the fun

Aladdin slipped

And

was

at

off into

its

height,

the night,

caught his horse, and through Pekin

ALADDI
Rode

to his house and hurried

And rubbed

the

lamp,

and

in,

called

the

Djinn.

"O
"A

Djinn," he

cried,

"I beg you build

noble palace in the

field

"Before the Sultan's palace gate.

"Nor must

the Sultan have to wait

"Before he sees
"Raising

"And

all

its

it

standing there,

towers into the

air.

the people must confess

"They never saw

/]

such

loveliness.

ALADDIN
'To-morrow when the

"Open

"The

all

sleepy let

first

see

gone
the

as

if

me

glory of the skies."

"It shall be done."

And

them

palace you have built for

"Catch the

Was
And

Sultan's eyes

The monstrous

he had not been.

young Aladdin mounted

galloped

Djinu

back

to

the

his horse,

palace.

Of

course

He sat on a throne on the Sultan's right,

And feasted and sang far into the night.
And then each Chinese sleepy head
Went comfortably off to bed.

ALADDI
EXT

morning early the Sultan

rises,

Opens

his

bamboo window-

shutters,

Opens

his

and

"Of

mouth,

his

stutters,

miraculous surprises!

all

"Who

eyes,

ever thought Aladdin could

"Give such a proof

"Why, how

it

of

shines,

masterhood?
and

how

the sun

"Lights up the windows, every one

"Is like a blazing stone, the towers

"Go up into the sky like flowers!

"See how the carven dragons gleam
"

All golden in the gold sun-beam

For Djinns are never the ones to

And

the Slave of the

at

Lamp

work,

swift

and

silent architect.

"
!

shirk,

had been hard

Of

all

miraculous surprises."

IALADDIN
And when
With

the Eastern sky

was flecked

cloudlets rosy in the sun,

He vanished, for his work was done,

And early Chinese birds, amazed,
Perched on the roofs that he had

Chinese palace the Djinn had

raised,

built,

With minarets and bays and courts,

And towers, and on the roofs all sorts
Of carven dragons

And

all

the

richly

gilt.

window frames were made

Of carved and jewel-studded jade,

The walls were built of marble white

[ALADDIN
With beams of emerald malachite.
The gates were cut in precious stone,

hundred turrets pierced the sky,

While on each turret, like an eye,
A diamond in the sunlight shone.

And

all

within

Each small

was

recess,

just as rich;

each window-niche

Had cushions like embroidered clouds,

And from the /^llk walls were
hanging

Of Chinese
Gods and

JpHNJ^

crowds
pictures,

Kings,

ALADDINIS
Dragons and trees, and other things.
Why you and I could spend an hour
In every room, in every tower,

And even

then there'd be a

Of lovely things we had

The

An

o
o

forgot.

I*

ceilings like fantastic skies

With coloured

The
And

lot

o
o

visions dazed the eyes.

very floors were polished

jet,

here and there the Djinn had set

ancient lacquered cabinet

With

drawers

of

things

be

to

admired

By anybody who was tired.

And all was real, though it might
seem

The

o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

o
o
o

o
o
o
o

palace of a splendid dream.

ooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooo

o
o
o
o

00000

lALADDI
COME,"

the

Sultan

said

with

glee,

"

come, my children, come

and see

"The

next-door

palace

of

delight

"That

stands

where nothing stood

last

night."

Aladdin bowed and spread

his hands,

And

my commands

"

said,

"I'm glad that

Have been obeyed.

"I

said,

single night,

and here upright

"And dragon-roofed the palace stands.

"You see my slaves are far from slow."
He might have said, "I told you so."
And Bedrelbood clapped ivory hands
And laughed. Meanwhile the Sultan craves
To know whence come the mighty slaves

Who can fulfil such hard commands.

"A palace in a night, and one

ALADDIN
"Which

is

as glorious as the

sun."

Aladdin smiled, and when he

saw

That

his august papa-in-law

Was eager to be asked inside,

He had the jewel gates flung
wide.

And

in

with

glowing

eyes

they went,
All happy,

all

magnificent,

And went from room

to

room

with cries

Of admiration and

surprise.

I:

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lUC)
LV^O

ALADDIN
LADDIN

and

his

bride

lived

there
In happiness beyond compare.

They changed

their

rooms

three times a week,

They

often played at hide and seek

Among

the corridors that ran

About the place in mazy plan.

There never were a couple who

Had such

delightful things to do.

Each night was filled with merriment,

There was the sound of flutes, the hum
Of

fingers

on the parchment drum,

While coloured lanterns

cast their glow,

Like captive planets, row on row,

And

nimble-footed dancers went

In dainty patterns to and fro.

And Bedrelbood grew yet more

Ten mandarins in Pekin city

pretty;

IALADDIN
Composed

ten

poems every

day,

In stilted Chinese verse, to say

That peachblossom could not compare

With her soft cheeks, while as for hair

No

silkworm spun a finer thread

Than that which coiled upon her head.
Aladdin had no need of Djinns.

He'd coffers

full

of gold.

In bins

His precious gems were safely stored.

He did not need a larger hoard,

And so he put the lamp away.
He always wore the ring, but he
Forgot

his

debt to sorcery.

His only thought was

love;

and pride

ALADDI
In Princess Bedrelbood
his bride.

And

all

was happiness

so great

That no one dreamed

of

coming fate,
Or how the wicked

old,

old man,

His heart

all

poisonous

with hate,

Was coming nearer with

a plan

To

dim

their cheerful-

ness with rust,

And

turn Aladdin's joy

to dust.

VI

Pekin

all

was

shining bright,

Towers and pagodas

the

in

light,

And

Chinese children were

at play,

And

it

When

was busy market day,

worn with travel, bent with

His old eyes fiery with

crooked old

age,

his rage,

man who had come from

far

Hobbled

into the grand bazaar.

"And now," he
"What happens
"For

muttered,
to those

fifteen years this

"We

who

shall

see

anger me.

Chinese scamp

ALADDIN
Has

lived

in

with

glory

my

lamp,

While

have had a weary tramp

Through

all

the countries of the

world :

Through burning clouds

of desert

sand,

There where the blinding

dust-

storms swirled,

On

roads with

death

at

either

hand,

S vy*5 C'?;^: ff/&&v&?:: **.&:<: vK:iVV. '&.":

:

(ALADDIN
"

On

slopes

icy

where

my

Of vengeance warmed me

At length

desire

like

fire.

the fifteen years are past,

And in Pekin I stand at last.

And now," he said,
with subtle wile
Aladdin's wife
beguile.

sSJfr*'-*-

aQQDDQDQQDQDQQDDnDDQDD

ALADDIN
E

bought brass lamps as bright

as day

And

set

them

in a

lacquered

tray,

And

a creaking voice did cry

in

"New
He

lamps for old do

waited

With

till

then

supply."

Aladdin rode

bamboo wood,

his servants to the

And

with

voice

like

on

pencil

slate

He

called out close

by the palace

gate,

"New lamps for old, new lamps for

"See my new lamps gleaming gold,
"Touch them.

"New

Take them.

lamps for old do

Aladdin had taken

The heron and

Alone

The

his

the

at the palace

'Tis

no

old,

lie.

supply."

bow

to shoot

red-capped

window

stood

lovely Princess Bedrelbood.

coot

lALADDIN
WISH

that

could

go

hunting too,"

She

said,,

ing at

She

heard

"I have noth-

all

to do."

What

**

the

cries.

man
"Is this," she said. "What merchant can
"Give new lamps for old worn-out
strange old

things
"
"

Yet see

there

is

broken lamp.

man who
Indeed

brings

its true,

"

For now he's got one bright and new.

"I wish I had an old lamp, to see
"If this

is

only a trickery."

The old man cried, "New lamps for old,

"See my new lamps gleaming gold.

ALADDIN
"Touch them, handle them,

"New

for I

lamps for old ones do supply.

"

The

Princess laughed

"

old lamp hangs in Aladdin's chamber.

An

"It's quite
"I'll

worn

out.

get a bright

Why,

never

It's

new lamp

"Quick now, and fetch

it,"

remember,

lit.

for

it.

the Princess

said,

And

off

ran

her

favourite

waiting-maid.

From her window

high

in the palace wall,

The

Princess

loud did

leaned and
call

lALADDIN
"There

an old lamp here for you

is

"To

change for a lamp that

new."

The maid

was

it

in a

room so grand.
"I cannot reach,"
the

Princess

cried.

"Old man, please

will you come
inside."

old

man

leered

and

The

bright and

brought Aladdin's lamp

hand.

Dingy

is

hobbled

in

And puckered

his

mouth

with

an

grin

evil

in

her

ALADDI
ND climbed the stair until
he stood
Before the Princess Bedrelbood.
"

Choose which you

like,

Princess," he said,

give me that worthless old thing instead."

"And

She chose a lamp and

gave the dim

And

tarnished and worn-

out lamp to him.

'

'Xi'ic

Limps for old do

supply."

8*1

"_

'_;_"

ALADDIN
"Old man," she

"Why

sudden

fright,

do your old eyes

flame

The

cried in

old

so

man

"

bright

grinned,

the

man

old

leered,

The old man muttered through

"Aladdin

will

"And

call to

"Has

lost the

"The lamp
"You are

is

come
you

to look for you,

mine.

mine, for see

he

in vain, for

lamp of

mine,

his beard,

his sorcery.

You gave

and

the

it

me.

palace

is

ALADDI
RUB
He

With
lamp."
wrinkled thumb
the

With
the drum

rubbed.
like

his

a rumbling

That makes the thunder up

in the clouds,

crash, the noise of trampling crowds,

With a

The

fearful roar, in thick black

smoke,

Djinn stood there, and scowled, and

spoke

"Your

servant, lord, I

"Of him who rubs

"

What

"For
,

is

that

it

what

you

am

the slave

the lamp you have.

would pleasure you

wish

am

here

to

do."

"Lift

"And
"And

me

this palace in

carry

bear

it

it

off

to

your hands

beyond the
far

sea,

Moorish

lands

[ALADDIN
"And
"And

in

it

Bedrelbood and
the

plant

"Desert where

palace

we

will

be married.
"Aladdin's lamp
His wife,

"Whom

have.

he loves dearer

than his

life,

make my own. Oh

"I'll

death would be
"

Less pain than Aladdin's

misery.'*

But

Bedrelbood

with

streaming eyes

Looks from the window,

and espies

Far

off

Aladdin

and
his

all

men

in

me
the

arid

ALADDI
Merrily riding
"

Save

me

"
!

home
she

again.

cried.

Too

late.

ground
Shot far below, as with a bound

The
And

palace flew up into the sky

darted off for Araby.

The

VII

LADDIN
And

saw
dart

the
across

palace

the

rise

azure

skies.

white hand waved, a handkerchief

Dropped sideways,

like

a falling

leaf.

So swift the golden palace flew

That

was gone before he knew.

it

Aladdin spurred

To chase
Ah me
!

The

his

'Tis

his

horse and tried

palace and his bride.

little

good to chase

deeds of magic

with a horse.

ALADDIN
HOSE

of

domes,

magic-lifted

course,

him

Left

behind

won

and

their race.

Aladdin turned

his

charger's

head,

And

rode back

much

dispirited.

There, where his palace once had been,

He found that nothing could be seen.

The jewelled dragon-gates were left
And in them, raging, stood bereft
The Sultan, and with voice of awe
f

Demanded of his son-in-law:

"Where is my daughter, villain, where
"Is hidden Bedrelbood the fair?"

He

stamped with

Walked
His

like

pigtail

fury, roared with rage,

a tiger in a cage,

waving

like

a snake,

lALADDIN
As

violently he tossed his head.

"O

faithless sorcerer,"

And

he

said,

bid the executioner take

His curving sword of patterned

Then made the poor Aladdin

And wait the blow. Aladdin

steel,

kneel
knelt,

Already the sharp-edged death he

felt.

He clenched his teeth, but made no sound,

And counted the pebbles on the ground.

Th

executioner waved his sword,

And

waited the word from his Chinese

lord.

But the Sultan changed

his

mind and

sighed.

The

Sultan's eyes

"There

He

said.

is

no use

were wet and dim

in killing him,"

"Aladdin, seek your bride,

"Bring back the Princess Bedrelbood,

ALADDIN
"

The

pearl of Chinese

woman-

hood,

"Your

wife,

dear

"Ah

my

daughter and

my

me,

wish

that

she

were

here."

And so they
Went out of

loosed Aladdin and he

the city mournfully.

His palace, his lamp, and his Princess

too

Were

gone, and he did not

what to do.

And

night

the

came

know

on, and there

was

moon

Silver pale like a pearl in the sky

The

sunset faded

away and soon

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horse.'

to

chase

lALADDIN
The

stars

were

circling far

All night he wandered,

And many

all

and high.
next day,

days he wandered on

Until at last he could not say

How many

woeful days were gone.

And then, one night, he left the lanes,

And groped through wavering bamboo-canes.
He saw a glint on his groping hand,
The glint of a stone in a metal band.
He remembered the ring. "There is hope
for me yet,"
He cried, "and for Bedrelbood, my pet."
He rubbed the ring, and dark and weird
With

fiery eyes the

Djinn appeared.

"Master, what is it?" he

asked, and leant

Like a great tree out of

the firmament.

ALADDI
"Take me," he

"in

said,

the

palm

of

your hand

"And

set

me down

break of day

at

"In that strange and distant foreign land

"Whither

The

my

palace has flown away."

great Djinn bent and Aladdin crept

Into his hand and lay

As he rushed through

down and

slept

the arrows of the

air,

Past the Great Bear and the Little Bear.

He

slept, for

That a

tired

He woke
And

at

he knew as well as you

man no work can

dawn in the great

do.

dark hand

looked out over a desert land.

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HROUGH

the Djinn's fingers he

saw the sea,

And

the waving palms of

Araby.

Over the edge of the world the sun

Threw his rays as the journey was done,

And what was

that so gleaming bright

But Aladdin's palace of delight?

There
In

it

the

lay, like a glittering

as

sand,

the

crown

travellers

glided

down.

"Now,"
"I

said

must

Aladdin under
that

put

his breath,

wicked old man to

death.

"O

powerful Djinn, please give to

"The

strongest

poison

that

ever

me
could

be."

"Here,"

said

the

Djinn,

"is

what you

ask,"

And he gave

Aladdin a

little flask.

ALADDIN!

"But the wicked old man

is

so terribly

strong
"It will not send

With

that

the

him to

sleep for long."

Djinn had vanished and

gone,

And

Aladdin stood

in the

sand alone,

''

Under the
where

^
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Was wont

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her

^ilw^P

window
Bedrelbood
to

mourn

widowhood.

VIII

E murmured low

his dear one's

name,

Then

started

with

his

eyes

aflame,

For

Was

at the

Bedrelbood

Sang

in

And how
"

window

a song

just

herself,

how

"How many

she

"

did

love

him,

so far away,

days before that day,

"When you, my love,

"To call me dear and
"

and she

she lived in misery.

Aladdin," she sang,

"How

above him

long have

Snatched from

shall

proudly come

take

me home?

a captive been

my

lover in Pekin

JALADDI
"O come, Aladdin, come at last
"To kiss away the wretched past."
"My love," he cried, "my porcelain
dear,

"My

pomegranate, Aladdin's here."

She looked she saw him. At the

;

She nearly fainted with

Then touched

her

lips,

sight

delight,

and whispered

44

Fly,

"The old magician may be nigh.

"He comes each day to pester me

"To
"He

be

his bride,

says

and as for thee,

you died by the abhorred

"Executioner's curving sword,

"

And

if

he learnt you were not dead

"But very much

alive instead,

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"I

do

"In

know what he would do

not

ways

skilful

"O

Aladdin smiled.

"O face of
"When the
"Be

to torture you."

night-black hair,

ivory, lotus-fair,

old monster

comes

to-day,

sportive with him, and in play

"Ask

him

with

drink

to

you,

for

guile

"Is

"He

our only

He

holds the lamp.

"Then pour
She

sword against him while

took

this

the

will

agree.

poison in his tea."

Their

flask.

fingers

met,

Her

sidelong eyes shone out like

jet.

"When he has drunk," Aladdin said,

"He will be very far from dead;
"Magician

"But

"Be

for

men are
a moment

sluggish.

hard to
or

That's

kill,

two he

will

time

for

the

me.

ALADDI
1

leap

in,

snatch

away

his key,

"Get out the lamp, and

call

the Djinn,

"Punish the old

man

for his

sin,

"And back

"To

we'll

go to old Pekin

greet your father's Majesty."

"O, won't he be pleased," she clapped her

hands,

"To
"But

see us back from foreign lands!"

hide,

"When

I'll

cuckoo one, two,

the old magician

is

three,

drugged by

me."

Aladdin hid close under the wall,

And

waited for the cuckoo

call.

"

The Magician

struck, but his blows

fell

wide.'

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ALADDIN
HE

day wore on, the burning

sun

Had

downward swoop

long his
begun,

When
a

Came craftily
The Princess

To

the old magician, like

snake

to try to take

Bedrelbood the

be the mistress of

his

fair,

lair.

But Bedrelbood was wily too,

And

when

smiled

the old

man came

to

woo;
well," she said, "I'd better be

"Ah,

"Your

bride than alone in misery.

"You

say

Aladdin's

dead?"

"He

is

dead;"

The
"Kiss

old

man

me,"
great,

bent his wicked head.

he

said,

"my

wealth

is

ALADDI
"No O u ^en

on earth

shall

have your

state.

"No

Sultan,

Khan, or Emperor pours

"Such jewels out

The

Princess

as shall

sighed.

be yours."

"Ah,

well,"

said

she,
"I'll think,

while

She made tea

And poured
In

little

Was

it

we

in a

are taking tea."

dragon pot,

out, all piping hot

golden cups.

The

tray

lacquered with a golden spray.

She hid the poison

in

her sleeve,

And subtly she went on to weave

A web of flattery about
The villain's head. And every doubt
Fled far away. The villain quaffed
With wheezy laughs the poison

draught,

He fell back on the cushioned floor,

And yawned, and then began to snore.

ALADDIN
WIFTLY
"

the

Princess

called

Cuckoo,

"Cuckoo, cuckoo," and Aladdin

came

And

climbed up through the

window

frame,

And did what he had planned to do.

The key was on the old man's breast,
Aladdin took

it,

turned and pressed

The spring in the door of the cabinet

Where the worn old magical lamp was set.
He seized the lamp, and fn turned
his head,

In time to hear
a

crashing
tread,

And see
man

the old
close

behind,

lALADDI
With eyes

The
And
The

that rage

made almost

blind.

magician struck with his scimitar,

shattered a beautiful porcelain

jar,

magician thrust once, twice, and

again,

And

crash

went

a pictured window-pane.

Aladdin slipped from side to

The

side,

magician struck but his blows

wide.

fell

And Bedrelbood went red and white,

And fell at last, and fainted quite.
The magician struck with his sword

to

slay

The

fair Princess,

but in his

Stood Aladdin, and leapt

way

like

a mountain

goat,

And

buried

throat.

his

knife

in

the

villain's

IALADDIN
LADDIN

lugged him out of the

door,

the blood upon

Mopped up
the floor,

Kissed

Bedrelbood

till

she

awoke
Out

of her

swoon and smiled and spoke;

"Aladdin, dear and brave," said she,

"That's done.

Now

let

us

have some

tea."

They sipped their tea, and

And ate a plate of biscuits
"

Now,"

said Aladdin,

"Palace and

He

all,

"

let

shared a cup,
up.

us

fly,

from Araby."

rubbed the lamp, and with a

roll of

The

thunder and a crash,

ceiling lifted in the

air,

flash,

ND

the great Djinn

was standing

there.

"Master," he howled,
is'

'The

your

will

"What

lamp must serve you

slave of the

still."

said

"Well,"

Aladdin,

"you've

changed

your master;

"The old magician breathes no

"
You brought this palace
here.

Yet

faster

"Carry it back where

was before,

"And

set

it

down

it

with-

out a sound
"

Upon

the space of open

ground
"

Before the Pekin palace

gate.

more.

TRANCE, O

has

Djinn,

been

the fate

That made you

build

the

palace there,

"Then whisk it off through leagues of

"And now to whisk it back again.

"O Bedrelbood
"To see Pekin
"And

live

as

and

air

are fain

and the Sultan too,

we were
"

used to do.

To-morrow

let

the

Sultan rise

"With

tears

both
"It

of

joy

in

his eyes."

shall

be done," the

Djinn replied,

And

vanished.

"

O," the

Princess cried,
"

How

the wind whistles

in the

room,

"How
"

Of

dark

it

is.

Is this

the gloom

Look down

night ?

why

there's

the sea.
"

see the white of waves, but far

"Below

There's a shining star;

us.

"It seems within a yard of me.

"Aladdin, darling,

how we

fly

"Like birds across the purple

"

But nest and

The

all.

palace floats

"Far steadier than the best

"But moves
"There,

"

book,

See, pagodas, junks,

white-robed old Confucian monks.

sun with arrows

Is up.

"My

of boats

Aladdin, look,

fast.

like a picture in a

"Is China.

"And
"The

so

sky,

see,

my

made

of fire

heart's desire,

father's palace.

Down we

come.

"Aladdin, look, we're home, we're home."

"And Bedrelbood

sat

down and

Aladdin whispered at her

side,

cried.

He flung far

out the talisman:'

ALADDINggjggs
"My

peach blossom, my dainty lover,

"Rejoice that all our woes are over."

The

Sultan had been dour and grim;

His slaves were

He

all

afraid

of him.

never once had even smiled

Since the

magician stole
Each morning he would

his

child.

look to see

If

the

palace was where

Each morning he

To

spend

Cross-legged
sigh

And bit

and
his

alone.

it

^S^ me

used to be;

sadly turned

v"W

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anc holy day,

he

/SSKO^^SW^

away

sat

with

roan

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pig-tail

all

(ALADDIN
E

rose that morning just as grim

But saw what much astonished

him.

There shone the

palace,

gay

with gold,

And dragon roofs

And minarets and
Exactly as

it

as

have

jewels fine

used to shine.

"I dream," he thought;

"Will disappoint

"Fantastic

called

His

pig-tail,

my

which he

his royal

did, the fool,

master knocked

And, without waiting for

his

him down,

crown,

Rushed from the palace to the

Upset a mandarin of

state,

And, bursting with paternal

Ran up

lies

waking eyes."
a slave and bid him pull

He
For

told,

joy,

the staircase like a boy.

gate,

lALADDIN
Y

daughter,

O my

Bed-

relbood

"Aladdin, O, the Gods

are good."

The

Princess clung about his neck,

Aladdin wisely did not check

The transports of her filial

He waited while the Sultan

To

kiss

both cheeks

at

love.

strove

once and

dance

The
The

spectacle did

And

told Aladdin

him entrance.

Sultan tired at last and turned,

how he

burned

To

ALADDIN!

thank him.

"Know, my

son," said he,

"You shall be Sultan after me."

The bells rang out in all Pekin.
The cymbals clattered. Such a din
Was never heard. And flags were waved,

And

was

tea

drunk,

and

kites

were

flown,

And

all

men knew how

Aladdin had

The

set out

quite alone

and saved

Princess from a woeful fate.

IALADDIN
HE

was

feast

they

And

spread.

how

ate,

drank, and laughed, and

and sang,

danced,

While

all

bells

The

Ah,

the time the joyrang.

sun went down, the sky grew dim,

Aladdin saw a scarlet rim

Behind

"Will

He

the
I

said,

bamboo-trees.

"No more

depend on wizardry,"
and

hurried

to

the

shore.

ALADDIN
"

Enough

magician's

work

for

He cried, and flung far out to

The talismans, and there they
Invisible to

little ring,

Where

For then
all

lie

eye,

a lamp of brass,

when

were a kind

In

sea

ceaselessly the waters pass.

Sometimes,
I

human

me,"

I'd

poor,

almost wish

of Chinese fish,

bring

them up and

live

the wealth the Djinn could give.

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