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Arabian Poetry: The Moallakát: The Poem of Tarafa: The Argument

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THIS Poem was occasioned by a little incident highly characteristic of pastoral manners. Tarafa and his brother Mabed jointly possessed a herd of camels, and had agreed to watch them alternately, each on his particular clay, lest, as they were grazing, they should be driven off by a tribe with whom their own clan was at war. But our poet was so immersed in meditation, and so wedded to his muse, that he often neglected his charge, and was sharply reproved by his brother, who asked him…

Arabian Poetry: The Moallakát: The Poem of Tarafa: The Argument

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