Azar's Middle Eastern Journeys
"...here comes a donkey laden with cucumbers,
apparently a favorite refreshment,
for almost everyone stops him;
here string of tall, awkward camels
fills the narrow street;
there,
seated on his shopboard,
is an old man drowsily nodding
among the silks
of India and Syria;
and there are two pale boys
playing dominoes
in an armourer's shop,
from the roof of which hang
like the sword of Damocles,
a quantities of ivory-handled knives,
that make the niche
look like a cave of stalactites."
Eliot Warburton, The Crescent and the Cross, 1843
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