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Sulmi son of Rabi e ah. 
Roast flesh, the glow of fieiy wine; 
to speed on camel fleet and sure 
As thy soul lists to urge her on 
through all the hollow's breadth and length ; 
White women statue-like that trail 
rich robes of price with golden heni; 
Wealth; easy lot; no dread of ill; 
to hear the lyre's complaining string— 
5 These are Lifers joys. Tor man is set 
the prey of Time; and Time is change. 
Life strait or large ; great store or naught; 
airs one to Time; all men to Death. 
Death brought to naught Tasm long agO; 
Ghafti of Bahni; and Du Judun, 
The race of Jash and Marib, and 
the House of Lucjman and et-Tuqum 
Ham. jop. 506-7. 
Notes. 
The metre of this poem is unique, and does not occur among the 
forms settled either by el-Khalil son of Ahmed, the founder of Arabic 
prosody, or by Sa‘id son of Mas‘adeh el-Akhfash. Et-Tebrizi considers it 
a species of JBesit. The following is its scheme :— 
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1 
The author, Sulmi son of Kabbah, belonged to the family of the 
Benu-s-Sid (“ Sons of the Wolf”) of Dabbeh, a tribe descended from 
Mudar by Tabikhah son of Ilyas. The men of Dabbeh were one of the 
Bibdh , or live confederate tribes all descended from Tabikhah, and closely 
