From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: In all five stanzas : first three regular ones, each of four lines, rhyming a, b, a, b; then two others, each of twelve lines, rhyming a, b, a, b, c, d, c, d, e, f, e, f.
This piece is not dated.
"Le Vieux Cheik," melody, poem by Alexandre Dumas, music by Ernest Beyer, sung by Édouard Beauce of the Opéra Comique. Paris, C. Prilipp, music publisher, 19 Boulevard des Italiens; with a design by Célestin Nanteuil, lithographed by Bertauts.
