{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp045.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp045.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp045.htm","text":"Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\nHe had no sooner finished. than Rakeek began, and in the same versification, and to the same air, sung as follows:\nLet the cup, with nectar crowned,\n \u00a0\u00a0Through the grove its beams display;\n It can shed a lustre round,\n \u00a0\u00a0Brighter than the torch of Day.\nLet it pass from hand to hand,\n \u00a0\u00a0Circling still with ceaseless flight,\n Till the streaks of gray expand\n \u00a0\u00a0O\u2019er the fleeting robe of Night.\nAs Night flits, she does but cry.\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Seize the moments that remain\":\n Thus our joys with yours shall vie,\n \u00a0\u00a0Tenants of yon hallowed fane!","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: Rakeek to his Female Companions","type":"page"}