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“And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.”

James Elroy Flecker

Hassan, in Hassan, act 1, sc. 2 (1922)

“The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.”

James Elroy Flecker

Quoted by Louis Untermeyer in Modern British Poetry http://books.google.com/books?id=GiwMAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+poet's+business%22+%22is+not+to+save+the+soul+of+man+but+to+make+it+worth+saving%22&pg=PA178#v=onepage (1920)

“But have you wine and music still,
And statues and a bright-eyed love,
And foolish thoughts of good and ill,
And prayers to them who sit above?”

James Elroy Flecker

To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence (l. 9-12)

“When the great markets by the sea shut fast
All that calm Sunday that goes on and on:
When even lovers find their peace at last,
And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.”

James Elroy Flecker

The Golden Journey to Samarkand (l. 7)

“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.”

James Elroy Flecker

The Old Ships (l. 1)

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