{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp030.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp030.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp030.htm","text":"Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\nThink not, if fury ye display,\n \u00a0\u00a0But equal fury we can deal;\n Hope not, if wronged, but we repay\n \u00a0\u00a0Revenge for every wrong we feel.\nWhy thus to passion give the rein?\n \u00a0\u00a0Why seek the robe of peace to tear?\n Rash youths, desist! your course restrain;\n \u00a0\u00a0Or dread the wrath ye blindly dare!\nYet friendship we nor ask from foes,\n \u00a0\u00a0Nor favour hope from you to prove:\n We loved you not, great Allah knows!\n \u00a0\u00a0Nor blamed you that ye could not love.\nTo each are different feelings given;\n \u00a0\u00a0This slights, and that regards his brother:\n \u2019Tis ours to live\u2014thanks to kind Heaven\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0Hating and hated by each other.","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: Verses Addressed to a Kindred Tribe at Variance with the One to Which the Poet Belonged, by Alfadhel Ibn Alabas","type":"page"}