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Arabian Poetry: Extracts From The Lay of the Himyarites: ...

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THE beautiful elegiac verses with which this masterpiece of ancient Arabic poetry opens have been compared, by Dr. Carlyle, to Goldsmith's Deserted Village. "But the Arab," remarks Burton, "with equal simplicity and pathos, has a fire, a force of language, and a depth of feeling, which the Irishman, admirable as his verse is, could never rival." (Pilgrimage, vol.

Arabian Poetry: Extracts From The Lay of the Himyarites: ...

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