{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp051.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp051.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp051.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Islam\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \nBuy this Book at Amazon.com\n \n \nArabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\n \n p. 123\n TO A FRIEND,\n ON HIS BIRTHDAY.\n \n WHEN born, in tears we saw thee drowned,\n \u00a0\u00a0While thine assembled friends around\n \u00a0\u00a0With smiles their joy confessed:\n So live, that at thy parting hour,\n They may the flood of sorrow pour,\n \u00a0\u00a0And thou in smiles be dressed.\n \n \n \n Next: On a Cat, That Was Killed As She Was Attempting to Rob A Dove-House, by Ibn Alalaf Alnaharwany","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: To a Friend, On His Birthday","type":"page"}