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Kings in old legends seem / Like mountains rising in the evening light. / They blind all with their gleam, / Their loins encircled are by girdles bright, / Their robes are edged with bands / Of precious stones -- the rarest earth affords -- / With richly jeweled hands / They hold their slender, shining, naked swords.