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Al-Murriyah's ''marthiyah'' runs as follows::O my eye, be generous to Masʿūd son of Shaddād :: with every teary gland ::: whose grief is manifest. :O whoever sees a lightning-flashing cloud :: that I have gazed for through the night ::: pouring profuse rain upon the riverbed‘s ::: black basalt track. :With it would I water the grave of him I intend, :: him whose grave is dear to me ::: though he were unredeemed. :Attester at councils, erector of edifices, :: bracer of banners, burner of dams, :Slitter of camel throats, slayer of tyrants, :: alighter on hilltops, breaker of bonds, :Orator of the eloquent, revolter of the ratified, :: obstructor of water holes, dispeller of doubt, :Alighter at pasturelands, endurer of hardships, :: dispeller of horrors, scaler of heights, :Gatherer of all virtues--as all who knew him knew-- :: his comrades’ ornament, the tyrant‘s scourge. :O Abū Zurārah, do not be distant! :: For every youth will one day be hostage ::: to stone slab and wooden bier. :O Banū Jarm. did you give your prisoner no drink? :: May my soul be your ransom, O Masʿūd, ::: from a burning thirst! :The thruster of the wide-gashing thrust :: that is followed by a profuse gush ::: after a boiling froth. :Who leaves his opponent with fingertips jaundiced. :: and his clothes as if ::: mulberry-spattered. :The buyer of wineskins for guests :: that alight in his courtyard. ::: to the destitute, :::: abundant morning rain.Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, ''The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Poetics of Ritual'' (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 176-77.
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