{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp082.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp082.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp082.htm","text":"Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\n[THIS author was a native of Syria, and died at Miafarakir, in the year of the Hejra 553.]\n\"In beverage so impure and vile\n \u00a0\u00a0How canst thou thus delight?\"\n \"My cups,\" he answered, with a smile,\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Are generous and bright.\"\n\"Beware those dangerous draughts,\" I cried;\n \u00a0\u00a0\"With love the goblet flows.\"\n \"And cursed is he,\" the youth replied,\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Who hatred only knows!\"\n\"Those cups too soon, with sickness fraught,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy stomach shall deplore.\"\n \"Then soon,\" he cried, \"the noxious draught\n \u00a0\u00a0And all its ills are o\u2019er.\"\n\"Rash youth! thy guilty joys resign\"\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0\"I will,\" at length he said:\n \"I vow I'll bid adieu to wine\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0As soon as I am dead!\"","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: A Remonstrance with a Drunkard, by Yahia Ben Salamet","type":"page"}