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3» GERTRUDE BELL
one verse from Poems from the Divati of Hafi% reveals the truth of
something that another famous English figure of the East, Sir
Ronald Storrs, was to say of her in years to come: that she was
compounded almost equally of head and heart.
Light of mine eyes and harvest of my heart,
And mine at least in changeless memory 1
Ah! when he found it easy to depart,
He left the harder pilgrimage to me!
Oh Camel-driver, though the cordage start,
For God’s sake help me lift my fallen load,
And pity be my comrade on the road!
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