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MOON OF LOVELINESS by MUHAMMAD AL-MU'TAMID II

First Line: SHE STOOD IN ALL HER SLENDER GRACE
Last Line: EXCEPT THE MOON'S OWN LUSTRE PALE?
She stood in all her slender grace
Veiling the sun's orb from my face:
O may her beauty ever be
So veiled from time's inconstancy!

It was as if she knew, I guess,
She was a moon of loveliness;
And may aught else the bright sun veil
Except the moon's own lustre pale?



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