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


p. 111

ON THE

RUIN OF THE BARMECIDES.

NO, Barmec! time hath never shown
  So sad a change of wayward fate;
Nor sorrowing mortals ever known
  A grief so true, a loss so great.

Spouse of the world! thy soothing breast
  Did balm to every woe afford;
And now, no more by thee caressed,
  The widowed world bewails her lord.


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