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Tears
by:
Al-Khansa
(7th century A.D.)
translated by R. A. Nicholson
Tears, ere thy
death
, for many a one I shed,
But thine are all my tears since thou art dead.
To comforters I lend my ear apart,
While pain sits ever closer to my heart.
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