“His poems generally known as the Luzumiyat arrest attention by their boldness and originality as well as by the sombre and earnest tone which pervades them.”—Raynold A. Nicholson: A History of the Arabs.

“Abu’l-Ala is a poet many centuries ahead of his time.”—Von Kremer.

COPYRIGHTED 1918 BY
JAMES T. WHITE & CO.

TO ABU’L-ALA

In thy fountained peristyles of Reason

Glows the light and flame of desert noons;

And in the cloister of thy pensive Fancy