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E maids of Aden, hear a loftier tale Than e'er was sung in meadow, bower, or dale. The smiles of Abelah, and Maia's eyes, Where beauty plays, and love in slumber lies; The fragrant hyacinths of Azza's hair, That wanton with the laughing summer-air; Love-tinctur'd cheeks, whence roses seek their bloom, And lips, from which the Zephyr steals perfume; Invite no more the wild, unpolish'd lay, But fly like dreams before the morning ray.