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Allah Almanzor amid angel Anon Arab arms art thou Aswad Azrael Babylon beautiful Bedouin beheld beneath bird bitumen breath Caliph camel cave cavern cheek cried damsel darkness death desert Destroyer Domdaniel dost thou earth Eblis evil exclaim'd father fcap fear feet fire flame fruit garden gates gazed glory gold green groves hand Hand of Glory hath head heard heart heaven hell Hodeirah Hodeirah's hour human human voice JOHN GILBERT Khawla laid LAILA light limbs lips LOBABA look'd Lord Mahommedans Maimuna Maruth Mecca Moath Mohareb mosques mountains Nebuchadnezzar night o'er Okba Oneiza palace paradise prayer Prophet quoth Thalaba ring rock roll'd rose round Sam Slick sand sate servant sight snow sorcerer soul sound spake spell spirit stone stood sultan sword tent thee thou hast tower traveller tree turn'd voice wave wilt wind wings wonder young youth Zohak
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الصفحة 198 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands...
الصفحة 3 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
الصفحة 190 - ... majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight ; their tops reaching to the very clouds.
الصفحة 194 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water : and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
الصفحة 186 - If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down : for that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin : wherein shall he sleep ? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
الصفحة 110 - Now twine it round thy hands I say, Now twine it round thy hands I pray ! My thread is small, my thread is fine, But he must be A stronger than thee, Who can break this thread of mine...
الصفحة 3 - The desert circle spreads, Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night ! Who, at this untimely hour, Wanders o'er the desert sands ? No station is in view, Nor palm-grove, islanded amid the waste.
الصفحة 189 - The darkness and lightning increased very rapidly, and in less than an hour I heard the wind roaring among the bushes. I had already opened my mouth to receive the refreshing drops which I expected, but I was instantly covered with a cloud of sand, driven with such force by the wind as to give a very disagreeable sensation to my face and arms, and I was obliged to mount my horse, and stop under a bush, to prevent being suffocated.
الصفحة 177 - And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men ; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha. he revived, and stood up on his feet.
الصفحة 39 - There might his soul develop best Its strengthening energies; There might he from the world Keep his heart pure and uncontaminate, Till at the written hour he should be found Fit servant of the Lord, without a spot.