Sure, gentle bird, my drooping heart

Divides the pangs of love with thine,

And plaintive murm'rings are thy part,

And silent grief and tears are mine.

ON A THUNDER-STORM

(By Ibrahim ben Khiret Abou Isaac)

Bright smiled the morn, till o'er its head

The clouds in thicken'd foldings spread

A robe of sable hue;

Then, gathering round day's golden king,