{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp056.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp056.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp056.htm","text":"Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\nYe who now, with footsteps keen,\n \u00a0\u00a0Range through Hope's delusive field,\n Tell us what the smiling scene\n \u00a0\u00a0To your ardent grasp can yield?\nOther youths have oft before\n \u00a0\u00a0Deemed their joys would never fade,\n Till themselves were seen no more\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0Swept into oblivion's shade.\nWho, with health and pleasure gay,\n \u00a0\u00a0E\u2019er his fragile state could know,\n Were not age and pain to say\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0Man is but the child of woe?","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: On the Vicissitudes of Life, by the Khalif Radhi Billah","type":"page"}