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Ode LIII: If I dye my locks, will
Translated by Sir Charles James Lyall (1918) · From The Mufaddaliyat (1918)
If I dye my locks, will dyeing bring them back to their condition as they were before they became grey ?
She saw the camomile of white hair about a bald space — when it is rained upon, the nits thereof find no cover.
And if hoariness causes Youth to take his departure, yet time was when my locks were to be seen [black and glossy], before the raven was cast out therefrom.
Codex Note
Lyall's heading: The same.
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Elder, Muraqqish the. “Ode LIII: If I dye my locks, will.” Translated by Sir Charles James Lyall. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/muraqqish-the-elder/8/.
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Elder, Muraqqish the. “Ode LIII: If I dye my locks, will.” Translated by Sir Charles James Lyall. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/muraqqish-the-elder/8/.
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