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"O Edrehi, forbear to-night / Your ghostly legends of affright, / And let the Talmud rest in peace; / Spare us your dismal tales of death / That almost take away one's breath; / So doing, may your tribe increase."
Thus the Sicilian said; then went / And on the spinet's rattling keys / Played Marianina, like a breeze / From Naples and the Southern seas, / That brings us the delicious scent / Of citron and of orange trees, / And memories of soft days of ease / At Capri and Amalfi spent.