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Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881], at sacred-texts.com
p. 121
ON A VALETUDINARIAN.
BY THE SAME.
SO careful is Isa, and anxious to last,
So afraid of himself is he grown,
He swears through two nostrils the breath goes too fast,
And he's trying to breathe through but one.
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