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NIGHT BY THE RIVER by MUHAMMAD AL-MU'TAMID II

First Line: SWEET NIGHT OF JOYOUS MERRIMENT
Last Line: AND OH, THE BEAUTY OF MY FLOWER!

Sweet night of joyous merriment
Beside the swerving stream I spent,
Beside the maid about whose wrist
So sweetly swerved her bracelet's twist:

She loosed her robe, that I might see
Her body, lissom as a tree:
The calyx opened in that hour
And oh, the beauty of my flower!



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