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Selman
Poems from Oriental Languages: To Miriam, on Her Hair
(Arabian—Fifteenth Century)
Translation in Dublin University Magazine
Translation in Dublin University Magazine
E
In each hair
Lurks a snare
Worse than Afric’s gulfs and rocks.
They who swear
By that hair
Swear the Koran’s oath aright:
By the black Abyss of Night!