ON THE DEATH OF HIS MISTRESS
by: Abu Sahet Alhedhily
 OST thou
wonder that I flew
- Charm'd to meet my LEILA'S view?
- Dost thou wonder that I hung
- Raptur'd on my LEILA'S tongue?--
- If her ghost's funereal screech
- Thro' the earth my grave should reach,
- On that voice I lov'd so well
- My transported ghost would dwell:
- If in death I can descry
- Where my LEILA'S relics lie,
- SAHER'S dust will flit away,
- There to join his LEILA'S clay.
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"On the Death of His Mistress"
is reprinted from Specimens of Arabian Poetry, From the Earliest
Time to the Extinction of the Khaliphat. Trans. J.D. Carlyle.
Cambridge: John Burges, 1796. |
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