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Lord Ali-Baba was a Turk / Who hated every kind of work, / And would repose for hours at ease / With Houris seated on his knees.
A happy life! -- Until, one day
Mossoo Alphonse Effendi Bey / (A Younger Turk: the very cream / And essence of the New Regime) / Dispelled this Oriental dream / By granting him a place at Court, / High Coffee-grinder to the Porte, / Unpaid: -- / In which exalted Post / His Lordship yielded up the ghost.