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


p. 151

EPIGRAM

ON

ABU ALCHAIR SELAMU,

AN EGYPTIAN PHYSICIAN.
BY GEORGE, A PHYSICIAN OF ANTIOCH.

WHOEVER has recourse to thee
  Can hope for health no more:
He's launched into perdition's sea,
  A sea without a shore.

Where’er admission thou canst gain,
  Where’er thy phiz can pierce,
At once the Doctor they retain,
  The mourners and the hearse.


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