Just at this season Ramazani's fast[158]

Through the long day its penance did maintain:

But when the lingering twilight hour was past,

Revel and feast assumed the rule again:

Now all was bustle, and the menial train

Prepared and spread the plenteous board within;

The vacant Gallery now seemed made in vain,

But from the chambers came the mingling din,

As page and slave anon were passing out and in.[159]