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Most
of
his
visitors,
brash
emissaries
of
a
new
ruling
class,
barely
aware
of
their
own
youthful
hubris,
did
not
completely
grasp
the
layered
meaning
of
the
couplet
they
had
been
offered,
like
a
snack
to
be
washed
down
by
a
thimble-sized
cup
of
thick,
sweet
tea.
They
understood
of
course
that
it
was
a
dirge
for
a
fallen
empire
whose
international
borders
had
shrunk
to
a
grimy
ghetto
circumscribed
by
the
ruined
walls
of
an
old
city.
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