{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp065.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp065.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp065.htm","text":"Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\nLife is a dark, tumultuous stream,\n \u00a0\u00a0With many a care and sorrow foul;\n Yet thoughtless mortals vainly deem\n \u00a0\u00a0That it can yield a limpid bowl.\nThink not that stream will backward flow,\n \u00a0\u00a0Or cease its destined course to keep;\n As soon the blazing spark shall glow\n \u00a0\u00a0Beneath the surface of the deep.\nBelieve not Fate, at thy command,\n \u00a0\u00a0Will grant a meed she never gave;\n As soon the airy tower shall stand\n \u00a0\u00a0That's built upon a passing wave.\nLife is a sleep of threescore years;\n \u00a0\u00a0Death bids us wake and hail the light;\n And man, with all his hopes and fears,\n \u00a0\u00a0Is but a phantom of the night.","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: On the Death of a Son, By Ali Ben Mohammed Altahmany","type":"page"}