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Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881], at sacred-texts.com


p. 110

ON THE

INAUGURATION OF HAROUN ALRASHID,

AND THE

APPOINTMENT OF YAHIA

TO BE HIS VIZIER.

BY ISAAC ALMOUSELY.

TH’ affrighted sun erewhile had fled,
  And hid his radiant face in night;
A cheerless gloom the world o’erspread—
  But Haroun came, and all was bright.

Again the sun shoots forth his rays;
  Nature is decked in beauty's robe:
  For mighty Haroun's sceptre sways,
And Yahia's arm sustains the globe.


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