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WHITE FOR MOURNING by AL-FATA AL-KAFIF

First Line: IF IT IS THE USE
Last Line: WEAR ON MY BROW?

If it is the use
In Andalus
For mourning to wear white,
It is but right.

See you not, in ruth
For perished youth
The white hairs I now
Wear on my brow?



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