{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp075.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp075.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp075.htm","text":"Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\nBut what defence can tears afford?\n What aid supply in this dread hour?\n When, kindled by the sparkling sword,\n War's raging flames the land devour!\nNo more let sleep's seductive charms\n Upon your torpid souls be shed:\n A crash like this, such dire alarms,\n Might burst the slumbers of the dead.\nThink where your dear companions lie\u2014\n Survey their fate, and hear their woes:\n How some through trackless deserts fly,\n Some in the vulture's maw repose;\nRemember what ensanguined showers\n The Syrian plains with crimson dyed;\n And think how many blooming flowers\n In Syrian forts their beauties hide.\nArabian youths! in such a cause\n Can ye the voice of glory slight?\n Warriors of Persia! Can ye pause,\n Or fear to mingle in the fight?\nIf neither piety nor shame\n Your breasts can warm, your souls can move,\n Let emulation's bursting flame\n Wake you to Vengeance and to Love!","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: On the Capture of Jerusalem, in the First Crusade, by Almodhafer Alabiwerdy","type":"page"}