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136 LVIII.

The wild Albanian kirtled to his knee,

With shawl-girt head and ornamented gun,

And gold-embroidered garments, fair to see;

The crimson-scarféd men of Macedon;

The Delhi with his cap of terror on,

And crooked glaive—the lively, supple Greek

And swarthy Nubia's mutilated son;

The bearded Turk that rarely deigns to speak,

Master of all around, too potent to be meek,

LIX.

Are mixed conspicuous: some recline in groups,

Scanning the motley scene that varies round;

There some grave Moslem to devotion stoops,

And some that smoke, and some that play, are found;