Religion
Quatrain LVII
Translated by Henry Baerlein (1909) · From The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala (1909)
Religion
Where are the doctors who were nobly fired
And loved their toil because we ventured not,
Who spent their lives in searching for the spot
To which the generations have retired?
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al-Ma'arri, Abu al-Ala. “Quatrain LVII.” Translated by Henry Baerlein. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/al-maarri/177/.
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al-Ma'arri, Abu al-Ala. “Quatrain LVII.” Translated by Henry Baerlein. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/al-maarri/177/.
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