Lord Ali-Baba
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Lord 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.