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Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

"The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems"

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Both Leaders: You shall have torches bright,
Watching the folds by night,
Guarding the lambs aright,
Ten thousand years.
Men's Leader: King Solomon he asked the Queen of Sheba,

Bowing most politely:
"Why are the stars so high,
There in the velvet sky,
Rolling in rivers by,
Ten thousand years?"
Women's Leader: The Queen of Sheba answered like a lady,
and gives the same gesture as she answers.>
Bowing most politely:
"They're singing of your kingdom to the angels,
They guide your chariot with their lamps and candles,
Therefore they burn so far --
So you can drive your car
Up where the prophets are,
Ten thousand years."
Men's Leader: King Solomon,
King Solomon.
Both Leaders: King Solomon he kept the Sabbath holy.


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