Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: To Cassim Obid Allah, On the Death of One of His Sons, by Ali Ben Ahmed Ben Mansour
Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]
Two sons hadst thou, the one thy pride,
The other was thy pest;
Ah, why did cruel Death decide
To snatch away the best?
No wonder thou shouldst droop with woe,
Of such a child bereft:
But now thy tears must doubly flow,
For ah,—the other's left!