Abul Ala the Syrian

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II THE POEMS OF ABU'L ALA, AND SOME OTHERS . . . and after the jungle comes the open country. (Abu'l Ala, Letter 39.) On his approaching blindness Some day, when dust is on this eye, The years of blindness will not signify. The graveyard cannot bring me gloom, Nor yet can one eye's blindness, nor this other's rheum. Abu Dshafer, the judge, on Abu'l Ala At Ma'arrah dwells a dog Who thinks religion is a clog, And in the meanwhile has Ma'arrah Become the surname of a dog. so THE POEMS OF ABU'L ALA 81 Quatrains by AMI Ala As dawn was flinging on the purple sky The robe of green, the camel's heavy tread Sank in the soil, and lo ! the riders said : What is it that has turned our luck awry ? May be that people of a faded stem Have thrown a furtive glance upon the day That was in splendour bei$g borne away, W