Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or pass not singing. Have you heard
That silence where the birds are dead yet something pipeth like a bird?

James Elroy Flecker

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We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.

James Elroy Flecker

Tags: nostalgia literature decadent

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We travel not for trafficking alone;
By hotter winds our hearts are fanned:
For lust of knowing what should not be known
We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

James Elroy Flecker

Tags: traveling

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Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.

James Elroy Flecker

Tags: impudence elephant

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