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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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