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The Poet’s Symbol.

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If a man would seek for the symbol of the
poet, he need not look farther than “The
Arabian Nights’ Tales.” Scherezade who
interprets the stories for the Sultan – Scherezade
is the poet, and the Sultan is the public who
is to be agreeably entertained, or else he will
decapitate Scherezade.

Powerful Sultan! Poor Scherezade!

The Sultan-public sits in more than a
thousand and one forms, and listens. Let us
regard a few of these forms.

There sits a sallow, peevish, scholar; the

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