The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala by Henry Baerlein
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If it has been determined otherwise.
IV Behold, my friends, there is reserved for me The splendour of our traffic with the sky: You pay your court to Saturn, whereas I Am slain by One far mightier than he. V You that must travel with a weary load Along this darkling, labyrinthine street-- Have men with torches at your head and feet If you would pass the dangers of the road. VI So shall you find all armour incomplete And open to the whips of circumstance, That so shall you be girdled of mischance Till you be folded in the winding-sheet. VII Have conversation with the wind that goes |
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