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Golden Road, inspired by "The Story of Hassan of Baghdad and How He Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand” by James Elroy Flecker. Here are some sections from the story:

You hear? The camels are being driven to the Gate of the Moon.
At midnight starts the great summer caravan for the cities
of the Far North East, divine Bokhara and happy Samarkand.
It is a desert path as yellow as the bright sea-shore:
therefore the Pilgrims call it The Golden Journey.

I am leaving this city of slaves......
I have broken my lute and will write no more qasidahs in praise of
the generosity of kings. I will try the barren road, and listen
for the voice of the emptiness of earth. And you shall walk beside me.

Sweet to ride forth at evening from the wells
When shadows pass gigantic on the sand,
And softly through the silence beat the bells
Along the Golden Road to Samarkand.

We travel not for trafficking alone;
By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned:
For lust of knowing what should not be known,
We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.