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It was afternoon when we emerged from the defile1. And informed that our host was receiving his guests in the House of the Afternoon, thither2 we directed our steps.
Soft in our face, blew the blessed breezes of Omi, stirring the leaves overhead; while, here and there, through the trees, showed the idol-bearers of the royal retreat, hand in hand, linked with festoons of flowers. Still beyond, on a level, sparkled the nodding crowns of the kings, like the constellation3 Corona-Borealis, the horizon just gained.
Close by his noon-tide friend, the cascade4 at the mouth of the grotto5, reposed6 on his crimson7 mat, Donjalolo:—arrayed in a vestment of the finest white tappa of Mardi, figured all over with bright yellow lizards9, so curiously10 stained in the gauze, that he seemed overrun, as with golden mice.
Marjora's girdle girdled his loins, tasseled11 with the congregated12 teeth of his sires. A jeweled turban-tiara, milk-white, surmounted13 his brow, over which waved a copse of Pintado plumes14.
But what sways in his hand? A scepter, similar to those likenesses of scepters, imbedded among the corals at his feet. A polished thigh- bone; by Braid-Beard declared once Teei's the Murdered. For to emphasize his intention utterly15 to rule, Marjora himself had selected this emblem16 of dominion17 over mankind.
But even this last despite done to dead Teei had once been transcended18. In the usurper's time, prevailed the belief, that the saliva19 of kings must never touch ground; and Mohi's Chronicles made mention, that during the life time of Marjora, Teei's skull20 had been devoted21 to the basest of purposes: Marjora's, the hate no turf could bury.
Yet, traditions like these ever seem dubious22. There be many who deny the hump, moral and physical, of Gloster Richard.
Still advancing unperceived, in social hilarity23 we descried24 their Highnesses, chatting together like the most plebeian25 of mortals; full as merry as the monks26 of old. But marking our approach, all changed. A pair of potentates27, who had been playfully trifling29, hurriedly adjusted their diadems30, threw themselves into attitudes, looking stately as statues. Phidias turned not out his Jupiter so soon.
In various-dyed robes the five-and-twenty kings were arrayed; and various their features, as the rows of lips, eyes and ears in John Caspar Lavater's physiognomical charts. Nevertheless, to a king, all their noses were aquiline31.
There were long fox-tail beards of silver gray, and enameled32 chins, like those of girls; bald pates33 and Merovingian locks; smooth brows and wrinkles: forms erect34 and stooping; an eye that squinted35; one king was deaf; by his side, another that was halt; and not far off, a dotard. They were old and young, tall and short, handsome and ugly, fat and lean, cunning and simple.
With animated36 courtesy our host received us; assigning a neighboring bower37 for Babbalanja and the rest; and among so many right-royal, demi-divine guests, how could the demi-gods Media and Taji be otherwise than at home?
The unwonted sprightliness38 of Donjalolo surprised us. But he was in one of those relapses of desperate gayety in-variably following his failures in efforts to amend39 his life. And the bootless issue of his late mission to outer Mardi had thrown him into a mood for revelry. Nor had he lately shunned40 a wild wine, called Morando.
Not to gainsay42 the truth, we fancied the Morando much. A nutty, pungent43 flavor it had; like some kinds of arrack distilled44 in the Philippine isles45. And a marvelous effect did it have, in dissolving the crystalization of the brain; leaving nothing but precious little drops of good humor, beading round the bowl of the cranium.
Meanwhile, garlanded boys, climbing the limbs of the idol-pillars, and stirruping their feet in their most holy mouths, suspended hangings of crimson tappa all round the hall; so that sweeping46 the pavement they rustled47 in the breeze from the grot.
Presently, stalwart slaves advanced; bearing a mighty48 basin of a porphyry hue49, deep-hollowed out of a tree. Outside, were innumerable grotesque50 conceits52; conspicuous53 among which, for a border, was an endless string of the royal lizards circumnavigating the basin in inverted54 chase of their tails.
Peculiar55 to the groves56 of Willamilla, the yellow lizard8 formed part of the arms of Juam. And when Donjalolo's messenger went abroad, they carried its effigy57, as the emblem of their royal master; themselves being known, as the Gentlemen of the Golden Lizard.
The porphyry-hued58 basin planted full in our midst, the attendants forthwith filled the same with the living waters from the cascade; a proceeding60, for which some of the company were at a loss to account, unless his highness, our host, with all the coolness of royalty61, purposed cooling himself still further, by taking a bath in presence of his guests. A conjecture62, most premature63; for directly, the basin being filled to within a few inches of the lizards, the attendants fell to launching therein divers64 goodly sized trenchers, all laden65 with choice viands66:—wild boar meat; humps of grampuses; embrowned bread-fruit, roasted in odoriferous fires of sandal wood, but suffered to cool; gold fish, dressed with the fragrant67 juices of berries; citron sauce; rolls of the baked paste of yams; juicy bananas, steeped in a saccharine68 oil; marmalade of plantains; jellies of guava; confections of the treacle69 of palm sap; and many other dainties; besides numerous stained calabashes of Morando, and other beverages70, fixed71 in carved floats to make them buoyant.
The guests assigned seats, by the woven handles attached to his purple mat, the prince, our host, was now gently moved by his servitors to the head of the porphyry-hued basin. Where, flanked by lofty crowned-heads, white-tiaraed, and radiant with royalty, he sat; like snow-turbaned Mont Blanc, at sunrise presiding over the head waters of the Rhone; to right and left, looming72 the gilded73 summits of the Simplon, the Gothard, the Jungfrau, the Great St. Bernard, and the Grand Glockner.
Yet turbid74 from the launching of its freight, Lake Como tossed to and fro its navies of good cheer, the shadows of the king-peaks wildly flitting thereupon.
But no frigid75 wine and fruit cooler, Lake Como; as at first it did seem; but a tropical dining table, its surface a slab76 of light blue St. Pons marble in a state of fluidity.
Now, many a crown was doffed77; scepters laid aside; girdles slackened; and among those verdant78 viands the bearded kings like goats did browse79; or tusking their wild boar's meat, like mastiffs ate.
And like unto some well-fought fight, beginning calmly, but pressing forward to a fiery80 rush, this well-fought feast did now wax warm.
A few royal epicures81, however, there were: epicures intent upon concoctions82, admixtures, and masterly compoundings; who comported83 themselves with all due deliberation and dignity; hurrying themselves into no reckless deglutition of the dainties. Ah! admirable conceit51, Lake Como: superseding84 attendants. For, from hand to hand the trenchers sailed; no sooner gaining one port, than dispatched over sea to another.
Well suited they were for the occasion; sailing high out of water, to resist the convivial85 swell86 at times ruffling87 the sociable88 sea; and sharp at both ends, still better adapting them to easy navigation.
But soon, the Morando, in triumphant89 decanters, went round, reeling like barks before a breeze. But their voyages were brief; and ere long, in certain havens90, the accumulation of empty vessels91 threatened to bridge the lake with pontoons. In those directions, Trade winds were setting. But full soon, cut out were all unladen and unprofitable gourds93; and replaced by jolly-bellied calabashes, for a time sailing deep, yawing heavily to the push.
At last, the whole flotilla of trenchers—wrecks and all—were sent swimming to the further end of Lake Como; and thence removed, gave place to ruddy hillocks of fruit, and floating islands of flowers. Chief among the former, a quince-like, golden sphere, that filled the air with such fragrance94, you thought you were tasting its flavor.
Nor did the wine cease flowing. That day the Juam grape did bleed; that day the tendril ringlets of the vines, did all uncurl and grape by grape, in sheer dismay, the sun ripe clusters dropped. Grape-glad were five-and-twenty kings: five-and-twenty kings were merry.
Morando's vintage had no end; nor other liquids, in the royal cellar stored, somewhere secret in the grot. Oh! where's the endless Niger's source? Search ye here, or search ye there; on, on, through ravine, vega, vale—no head waters will ye find. But why need gain the hidden spring, when its lavish95 stream flows by? At three-fold mouths that Delta-grot discharged; rivers golden, white, and red.
But who may sing for aye? Down I come, and light upon the old and prosy plain.
Among other decanters set afloat, was a pompous97, lordly-looking demijohn, but old and reverend withal, that sailed about, consequential98 as an autocrat99 going to be crowned, or a treasure- freighted argosie bound home before the wind. It looked solemn, however, though it reeled; peradventure, far gone with its own potent28 contents.
Oh! russet shores of Rhine and Rhone! oh, mellow100 memories of ripe old vintages! oh, cobwebs in the Pyramids! oh, dust on Pharaoh's tomb!— all, all recur101, as I bethink me of that glorious gourd92, its contents cogent102 as Tokay, itself as old as Mohi's legends; more venerable to look at than his beard. Whence came it? Buried in vases, so saith the label, with the heart of old Marjora, now dead one hundred thousand moons. Exhumed103 at last, it looked no wine, but was shrunk into a subtile syrup104.
This special calabash was distinguished105 by numerous trappings, caparisoned like the sacred bay steed led before the Great Khan of Tartary. A most curious and betasseled network encased it; and the royal lizard was jealously twisted about its neck, like a hand on a throat containing some invaluable106 secret.
All Hail, Marzilla! King's Own Royal Particular! A vinous Percy! Dating back to the Conquest! Distilled of yore from purple berries growing in the purple valley of Ardair! Thrice hail.
But the imperial Marzilla was not for all; gods only could partake; the Kings and demigods of the isles; excluding left-handed descendants of sad rakes of immortals107, in old times breaking heads and hearts in Mardi, bequeathing bars-sinister to many mortals, who now in vain might urge a claim to a cup-full of right regal Marzilla.
The Royal Particular was pressed upon me, by the now jovial108 Donjalolo. With his own sceptered hand charging my flagon to the brim, he declared his despotic pleasure, that I should quaff109 it off to the last lingering globule. No hard calamity110, truly; for the drinking of this wine was as the singing of a mighty ode, or frenzied111 lyric112 to the soul.
"Drink, Taji," cried Donjalolo, "drink deep. In this wine a king's heart is dissolved. Drink long; in this wine lurk113 the seeds of the life everlasting114. Drink deep; drink long: thou drinkest wisdom and valor115 at every draught116. Drink forever, oh Taji, for thou drinkest that which will enable thee to stand up and speak out before mighty Oro himself."
"Borabolla," he added, turning round upon a domed117 old king at his left, "Was it not the god Xipho, who begged of my great-great- grandsire a draught of this same wine, saying he was about to beget118 a hero?"
"Even so. And thy glorious Marzilla produced thrice valiant119 Ononna, who slew120 the giants of the reef."
"Ha, ha, hear'st that, oh Taji?" And Donjalolo drained another cup.
Amazing! the flexibility121 of the royal elbow, and the rigidity122 of the royal spine123! More especially as we had been impressed with a notion of their debility. But, sometimes these seemingly enervated124 young blades approve themselves steadier of limb, than veteran revelers of very long standing125.
"Discharge the basin, and refill it with wine," cried Donjalolo. "Break all empty gourds! Drink, kings, and dash your cups at every draught."
So saying, he started from his purple mat; and with one foot planted unknowingly upon the skull of Marjora; while all the skeletons grinned at him from the pavement; Donjalolo, holding on high his blood-red goblet126, burst forth59 with the following invocation:—
Ha, ha, gods and kings; fill high, one and all;
Drink, drink! shout and drink! mad respond to the call!
Fill fast, and fill frill; 'gainst the goblet ne'er sin;
Quaff there, at high tide, to the uttermost rim:—
Flood-tide, and soul-tide to the brim!
Who with wine in him fears? who thinks of his cares?
Water sinks down below, in currents full slow;
As the spheres, with a roll, some fiery of soul,
So let our cups, radiant with many hued wines,
Round and round in groups circle, our Zodiac's Signs:—
Round reeling, and ringing their chimes!
Then drink, gods and kings; wine merriment brings;
Fill up, every cup, to the brim!
Caught by all present, the chorus resounded134 again and again. The beaded wine danced on many a beard; the cataract135 lifted higher its voice; the grotto sent back a shout; the ghosts of the Coral Monarchs136 seemed starting from their insulted bones. But ha, ha, ha, roared forth the five-and-twenty kings—alive, not dead—holding both hands to their girdles, and baying out their laughter from abysses; like Nimrod's hounds over some fallen elk137.
Mad and crazy revelers, how ye drank and roared! but kings no more: vestures loosed; and scepters rolling on the ground.
Glorious agrarian138, thou wine! bringing all hearts on a level, and at last all legs to the earth; even those of kings, who, to do them justice, have been much maligned139 for imputed140 qualities not theirs. For whoso has touched flagons with monarchs, bear they their back bones never so stiffly on the throne, well know the rascals141, to be at bottom royal good fellows; capable of a vinous frankness exceeding that of base-born men. Was not Alexander a boon142 companion? And daft Cambyses? and what of old Rowley, as good a judge of wine and other matters, as ever sipped143 claret or kisses.
If ever Taji joins a club, be it a Beef-Steak Club of Kings!
Donjalolo emptied yet another cup.
The mirth now blew a gale144; like a ship's shrouds145 in a Typhoon, every tendon vibrated; the breezes of Omi came forth with a rush; the hangings shook; the goblets146 danced fandangos; and Donjalolo, clapping his hands, called before him his dancing women.
Forth came from the grotto a reed-like burst of song, making all start, and look that way to behold147 such enchanting148 strains. Sounds heralding149 sights! Swimming in the air, emerged the nymphs, lustrous150 arms interlocked like Indian jugglers' glittering snakes. Round the cascade they thronged151; then paused in its spray. Of a sudden, seemed to spring from its midst, a young form of foam, that danced into the soul like a thought. At last, sideways floating off, it subsided152 into the grotto, a wave. Evening drawing on apace, the crimson draperies were lifted, and festooned to the arms of the idol-pillars, admitting the rosy96 light of the even.
Yielding to the re-action of the banquet, the kings now reclined; and two mute damsels entered: one with a gourd of scented153 waters; the other with napkins. Bending over Donjalolo's steaming head, the first let fall a shower of aromatic154 drops, slowly aborbed by her companion. Thus, in turn, all were served; nothing heard but deep breathing.
Shortly after, came three of the king's beautiful smokers157; who, lighting158 their tubes at this odorous fire, blew over the company the sedative159 fumes160 of the Aina.
Steeped in languor161, I strove against it long; essayed to struggle out of the enchanted162 mist. But a syren hand seemed ever upon me, pressing me back.
Half-revealed, as in a dream, and the last sight that I saw, was Donjalolo:—eyes closed, face pale, locks moist, borne slowly to his sedan, to cross the hollow, and wake in the seclusion163 of his harem.
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