• What bring ye me, O camels, across the southern desert,
    The wan and parching desert, pale beneath the dusk?
    Ye great slow-moving ones, faithful as care is faithful,
    Uncouth as dreams may be, sluggish as far-off ships,—
            What bring ye me, O camels?

    “We bring thee gold like sunshine, saving that it warms not;
    And rarest purple bring we, as...