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Arabian Poetry: The Romance of Antar: Antar's Grief For the Loss of Abla

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"Fortune builds up, and throws down!"—Antar's cup of happiness, filled to overflowing, was in an instant dashed from his lips, by the mysterious disappearance of his beloved Abla, for whose sake he had braved the perils of the deserts and the wastes, and fought with savage lions, and with warriors all but invincible. This was a calamity for which the heroic son of Shedad was totally unprepared; it fell upon him with a force that threatened to deprive him of his reason. In vain the kindhearted…

Arabian Poetry: The Romance of Antar: Antar's Grief For the Loss of Abla

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