{"id":159,"date":"2008-04-21T08:50:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T07:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/21\/inpm-21-aladdin-and-the-jinn\/"},"modified":"2016-12-10T10:55:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T09:55:48","slug":"inpm-21-aladdin-and-the-jinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/21\/inpm-21-aladdin-and-the-jinn","title":{"rendered":"INPM #21: Aladdin and the Jinn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"icon\u00c2\u00a0 Aladdin and the Jinn<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Bring me soft song,” said Aladdin.
\n“This tailor-shop sings not at all.
\nChant me a word of the twilight,
\nOf roses that mourn in the fall.
\nBring me a song like hashish
\nThat will comfort the stale and the sad,
\nFor I would be mending my spirit,
\nForgetting these days that are bad,
\nForgetting companions too shallow,
\nTheir quarrels and arguments thin,
\nForgetting the shouting Muezzin:”–
\n“I AM YOUR SLAVE,” said the Jinn.<\/p>\n

“Bring me old wines,” said Aladdin.
\n“I have been a starved pauper too long.
\nServe them in vessels of jade and of shell,
\nServe them with fruit and with song:–
\nWines of pre-Adamite Sultans
\nDigged from beneath the black seas:–
\nNew-gathered dew from the heavens
\nDripped down from Heaven’s sweet trees,
\nCups from the angels’ pale tables
\nThat will make me both handsome and wise,
\nFor I have beheld her, the princess,
\nFirelight and starlight her eyes.
\nPauper I am, I would woo her.
\nAnd–let me drink wine, to begin,
\nThough the Koran expressly forbids it.”
\n“I AM YOUR SLAVE,” said the Jinn.<\/p>\n

“Plan me a dome,” said Aladdin,
\n“That is drawn like the dawn of the MOON,
\nWhen the sphere seems to rest on the mountains,
\nHalf-hidden, yet full-risen soon.”
\nBuild me a dome,” said Aladdin,”
\nThat shall cause all young lovers to sigh,
\nThe fullness of life and of beauty,
\nPeace beyond peace to the eye–
\nA palace of foam and of opal,
\nPure moonlight without and within,
\nWhere I may enthrone my sweet lady.”
\n“I AM YOUR SLAVE,” said the Jinn.<\/p>\n

– Vachel Lindsay<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Overview: (Inter-)National Poetry Month 2008 \u00c2\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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