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C. J. Lvall — Translations from the Hamaseh. 
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As regards the last three, I believe that there is little or no difference 
between M. Guyard and myself. As regards the Tawil, I am as yet 
quite unable to accept his theory of the value of the foot fa'ulun, which 
he considers presents a double ictus, like mafcfilun. This is not the 
place to argue the question ; but all the phenomena alleged by M. 
Guyard in support of his view appear to me to bear an interpretation 
consistent with that taken by me, while there is much besides that 
confirms me in my opinion. 
The poems here rendered belong to all the periods of which 
specimens are given in the Hamaseh, from the oldest days of the War 
of Basus down to the time immediately preceding that in which the 
collection was compiled. The majority are, however, ancient. The 
probable dates have been given when I could ascertain them ; but it 
will of course be understood that those put forward by Caussin de 
Perceval for pre-islamic times are for the most part conjectural, and 
at the best only approximate. The references to the pages of the 
Hamaseh are to Frey tag's edition of the Arabic text, with et-Tebrizi's 
commentary. 
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