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The Pushkar Camel Fair.(Poem)

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From: Harvard Review
Date: 20061201
Author:Levine, Jeffrey

 
  Why, when the chamber was prepared, did the bridegroom not enter with 
  trumpets and shawms, as humanity expects? 
  --E. M. Forster, A Passage to India 
 
Maybe it was the heat, what Kipling called "the central fact of India," 
  or, 
according to my guidebook, 1000 Places to See Before You Die, 
he might distract himself with those private railway cars 
stolen from the former rulers 
of Gujarat and Rajasthan, seven hundred count Egyptian cotton 
sheets upon the beds, the arrogant bards, 
the cars replete with "service-proud captains," crisp 
tunics and brilliant turbans, 
 
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