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 1 Pre   |     while we are here to listen, Minstrel, strike the lute! for the
 2 Pre   |        couplet: "Boon companion, minstrel, and cup-bearer, all these
 3 V     |        lute shall speak;~And the minstrel knows that Zuleika came
 4 IX    |       With the light of wine! oh minstrel, sing:~The world fulfilleth
 5 XIII  |      veil apart.~Where art thou, Minstrel! touch thy saddest strings~
 6 XIII  |         My life into his lay the minstrel wove,~And filled my brain
 7 XIX   |        and whence the wine?~That minstrel singing with full voice
 8 XIX(*)| drunkenness of the Sufis, in the minstrel's song, or divine message,
 9 XXIX  |     green, and o'er~Her head the minstrel of the night shall fling~
10 XXXI  |        go.~Now, while we listen, Minstrel, tune thy lay!~Thyself hast