LORD ALI-BABA
by: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
 ord Ali-Baba was a Turk
- Who hated every kind of work,
- And would repose for hours at ease
- With Houris seated on his knees.
- A happy life!—Until, one day
- Mossoo Alphonse Effendi Bey
- (A Younger Turk: the very cream
- And essence of the New Regime)
- Dispelled this Oriental dream
- By granting him a place at Court,
- High Coffee-grinder to the Porte,
- Unpaid:—
- In which exalted Post
- His Lordship yielded up the ghost.
| "Lord Ali-Baba" is reprinted from More Peers. Hilaire Belloc. London: Stephen Swift, 1911. |
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