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


ON A MISER.

BY THE SAME.

HANG her—a thoughtless, wasteful fool,
  She scatters corn where’er she goes!"
Quoth Hassan, angry at his mule,
  That dropped a dinner to the crows.


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