{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp069.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp069.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp069.htm","text":"Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\nThus Youth and Age together meet,\n \u00a0\u00a0And Life's divided moments share:\n This can't advance till that retreat;\n \u00a0\u00a0What's here increased, is lessened there.\nAnd thus the falling shades of Night\n \u00a0\u00a0Still struggle with the lucid ray,\n And ere they stretch their gloomy flight,\n \u00a0\u00a0Must win the lengthened space from Day.","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: On The Incompatibility of Pride and True Glory, by Abu Alola","type":"page"}