{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp052.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp052.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp052.htm","text":"Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\nWith many a sad presaging tear,\n \u00a0\u00a0This morn I saw her steal away,\n While she went on without a fear,\n \u00a0\u00a0Except that she should miss her prey.\nI saw her to the dove-house climb,\n \u00a0\u00a0With cautious feet and slow she stept,\n Resolved to balance loss of time\n \u00a0\u00a0By eating faster than she crept.\nHer subtle foes were on the watch,\n \u00a0\u00a0And marked her course, with fury fraught;\n And while she hoped the birds to catch,\n \u00a0\u00a0An arrow's point the huntress caught.\nIn fancy she had got them all,\n \u00a0\u00a0And drunk their blood and sucked their breath;\n Alas! she only got a fall,\n \u00a0\u00a0And only drank the draught of death.\nCursed be the taste, howe\u2019er refined,\n \u00a0\u00a0That prompts us for such joys to wish;\n And cursed the dainty where we find\n \u00a0\u00a0Destruction lurking in the dish!","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: On a Cat, That Was Killed As She Was Attempting to Rob A Dove-House, by Ibn Alalaf Alnaharwany","type":"page"}