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[No. 2, 
C. J. Lyall —Translations from the Hamdseh. 
Notes. 
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The English imitates the Arabian measure. 
I have ascertained nothing of the author of these lines. Muweylik is 
the diminutive of Malik, and el-Mezmum means “ bridled,”—probably a 
nickname given for some peculiarity of feature. The verses were evidently 
composed after el-Islam. Umm-el-‘Ala was the poet’s wife, whose loss he 
mourns. 
v. 4. I have taken merJiumeh in the sense in which it is used when 
one dead is spoken of—as a prayer that God’s mercy may light on him or her. 
v. 7. “ The well of tears,” shu'unu l eyni : shiCun , plural of sha’n, are 
the tear-ducts of the eye. 
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I reprove my soul when no man is by for every smile : 
yea, a man may laugh, and be sick at heart with a sorrow sore. 
In ed-Deyr they lie, my lost ones : many another too 
knows well the pain el-Musalla hides in its slope of graves! 
Hillocks, around them a many like: and if thou go there, 
they will feed thee full of the bread of woe though they stir no whit. 
Far away enough are we from thee, since it recks thee naught 
how days fly here, nor we know aught sure how they go with thee ! 
Ham. p. 404. 
