{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp066.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp066.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp066.htm","text":"Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\nWhen Prudence would thy steps delay,\n \u00a0\u00a0She but restrains to make thee blest;\n Whate\u2019er from joy she lops away\n \u00a0\u00a0But heightens and secures the rest.\nWouldst thou a trembling flame expand\n \u00a0\u00a0That hastens in the lamp to die?\n With careful touch, with sparing hand,\n \u00a0\u00a0The feeding stream of life supply.\nBut if thy flask profusely sheds\n \u00a0\u00a0A rushing torrent o\u2019er the blaze,\n Swift round the sinking flame it spreads,\n \u00a0\u00a0And kills the fire it fain would raise.","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: On Moderation In Our Pleasures, by Abu Alcassim Ebn Tabataba","type":"page"}