The spread of Islam after 622 CE meant the eventual dispersal of the Arabic language from Morocco to Mesopotamia - a vast region where it displaced numerous other languages. Arabic speakers have long noted their language's poetic power and the prime example is the Qu'ran. But Arabic literature did not begin with the Qu'ran. In the ka'aba [the "cubic" temple in Mecca which was kept as the central shrine of Islam after all the religious statues had been removed], there were a number of poems "hanged" on the walls. Some of these "hanged poems" were allowed to remain after the Muslim order was established. They allow us some insight into the literature of pre-Islamic Arabia.
It is common to note that the definite unit of such poem is the line। Each line was polished to perfection, with overall poetic structure less important. The result is commonly described as a "string of pearls". Whether such an approach is correct is open to question, but it certainly impacts our reading of the Qur'an, a text which also seems to lack any overall organizational principle, but which is full of highly polished lines.
Stop, oh my friends, let us pause to weep over the remembrance of my beloved. The traces of her encampment are not wholly obliterated even now; The courtyards and enclosures of the old home have become desolate; On the morning of our separation it was as if I stood in the gardens of our tribe, As I lament thus in the place made desolate, my friends stop their camels; Nay, the cure of my sorrow must come from gushing tears. So, before ever I met Unaizah, did I mourn for two others; Fair were they also, diffusing the odor of musk as they moved, Thus the tears flowed down on my breast, remembering days of love; Behold how many pleasant days have I spent with fair women; On that day I killed my riding camel for food for the maidens: It is a wonder, a riddle, that the camel being saddled was yet unsaddled! Then the maidens commenced throwing the camel's fesh into the kettle; On that day I entered the howdah, the camel's howdah of Unaizah! She repulsed me, while the howdah was swaying with us; Then I said, "Drive him on! Let his reins go loose, while you turn to me. "Many a beautiful woman like you, Oh Unaizah, have I visited at night; There was another day when I walked with her behind the sandhills, Oh, Unaizah, gently, put aside some of this coquetry. Has anything deceived you about me, that your love is killing, me, And if any one of my habits has caused you annoyance, And your two eyes do not flow with tears, except to strike me with arrows in my broken heart. I passed by the sentries on watch near her, and a people desirous of killing me; I passed by these people at a time, when the Pleiades appeared in the heavens, Then she said to me, "I swear by God, you have no excuse for your wild life; I went out with her; she walking, and drawing behind us, over our footmarks, Then when we had crossed the enclosure of the tribe, I drew the tow side-locks of her head toward me; and she leant toward me; Thin-waisted, white-skinned, slender of body, In complexion she is like the first egg of the ostrich---white, mixed with yellow. She turns away, and shows her smooth cheek, forbidding with a glancing eye, And she shows a neck like the neck of a white deer; And a perfect head of hair which, when loosened, adorns her back, Her curls creep upward to the top of her head; And she meets me with a slender waist, thin as the twisted leathern nose-rein of a camel. In the morning, when she wakes, the particles of musk are lying over her bed. She gives with thin fingers, not thick, as if they were the worms of the desert of Zabi, Toward one like her, the wise man gazes incessantly, lovingly. The follies of men cease with youth, but my heart does not cease to love you. Many a night has let down its curtains around me amid deep grief, Then I said to the night, as slowly his huge bulk passed over me, "Oh long night, dawn will come, but will be no brighter without my love. At other times, I have filled a leather water-bag of my people and entered the desert, I said to the wolf, "You gather as little wealth, as little prosperity as I. Early in the morning, while the birds were still nesting, I mounted my steed. Swift to attack, to flee, to turn, yet firm as a rock swept down by the torrent, Thin but full of life, fire boils within him like the snorting of a boiling kettle; A boy would be blown from his back, and even the strong rider loses his garments. He has the flanks of a buck, the legs of an ostrich, and the gallop of a wolf. When he stands before the house, his back looks like the huge grinding-stone there. As I rode him we saw a flock of wild sheep, the ewes like maidens in long-trailing robes; He outran a bull and a cow and killed them both, and they were made ready for cooking; We returned at evening, and the eye could scarcely realize his beauty He stood all night with his saddle and bridle on him, But come, my friends, as we stand here mourning, do you see the lightning ? Its glory shines like the lamps of a monk when he has dipped their wicks thick in oil. So wide-spread was the rain that its right end seemed over Quatan, So mighty was the storm that it hurled upon their faces the huge kanahbul trees, In the gardens of Taimaa not a date-tree was left standing, The mountain, at the first downpour of the rain, looked like a The clouds poured forth their gift on the desert of Ghabeet, >till it blossomed As though the little birds of the valley of Jiwaa awakened in the morning As though all the wild beasts had been covered with sand and mud, like the onion's root-bulbs. Have the poets left in the garment a place for a patch to be patched by me; The vestige of the house, which did not speak, confounded thee, Verily, I kept my she-camel there long grumbling, It is the abode of a friend, languishing in her glance, Oh house of 'Ablah situated at Jiwaa, I halted my she-camel in that place; And 'Ablah takes up her abode at Jiwaa; She took up her abode in the land of my enemies; I was enamored of her unawares, And verily you have occupied in my heart the place of the honored loved one, And how may be the visiting of her, I knew that you had intended departing, Nothing caused me fear of her departure, Amongst them were two and forty milk-giving camels, When she captivates you with a mouth possessing sharp and white teeth, As if she sees with the two eyes of a young, grown up gazelle from the deer. Or as if it is an old wine-skin, from Azri'at, preserved long, Or her mouth is as an ungrazed meadow, The first pure showers of every rain-cloud rained upon it, Sprinkling and pouring; so that the water flows upon it The fly enjoyed yet alone, and so it did not cease humming, Humming, while he rubs one foreleg against the other, as She passes her evenings and her mornings on the surface And my couch is a saddle upon a horse big-boned in the leg, Would a Shadanian she-camel cause me to arrive at her After traveling all night, she is lashing her sides with her tail, and is strutting proudly, As if I in the evening am breaking the mounds of earth by means of an ostrich, The young ostriches flock toward him, as the herds of Yemenian camels They follow the crest of his head, He is small headed, who returns constantly to look after his She drank of the water of Duhruzain and then turned away, And she swerves away with her right side from the fear of From the fear of a cat, led at her side, every time she She knelt down at the edge of the pool of Rada', and groaned And the sweat on the back was as though it were oil or thick pitch, Her places of flexure were wetted with it and she lavishly poured of it, The length of the journey left her a strong, well-built body, like a high palace, And surely I recollected you, even when the lances were drinking my blood, I wished to kiss the swords, for verily they shone as bright If you lower your veil over yourself in front of me, of what use will it be? Praise me for the qualities which you know I possess, for, And if I am ill-treated, then, verily, my tyranny is severe, And, verily, I have drunk wine after the midday heats have subsided, From a glass, yellow with the lines of the glass-cutter on it, And when I have drunk, verily, I am the squanderer of my property, And when I have become sober, I do not diminish in my generosity, And many a husband of a beautiful woman, I have left prostrate on the ground, My two hands preceeded him with a hasty blow, striking him before he could strike me; Why did you not ask the horsemen, O daughter Malik! At a time when I never ceased to be in the saddle of a long striding, At one time he is detached to charge the enemy with the lance, He who was present in the battle will inform you that verily I rush into battle, I see spoils, which, if I want I would win; And many a fully-armed one, whom the warriors shunned fighting with, My hands were generous to him by a quick point with a straightened spear strong in the joints; I rent his vesture with a rigid spear, Then I left him a prey for the wild beasts, who seize him, And many a long, closely-woven coat of mail, Whose hands are ready, with gambling arrows when it is winter, When he saw that I had descended from my horse, and was intending killing him, My meeting with him was when the day spread out, I pierced him with my spear, and then I set upon him with my Indian sword Oh, how wonderful is the beauty of the doe of the hunt, So, I sent my female slave, and said to her, She said, "I saw carelessness on the part of the enemies, And it was as though she looked toward me with the neck of I am informed that 'Amru is unthankful for my kindness And, verily, I remember the advice of my uncle, in the battle, In the thick of the battle, of which the warriors do not complain of the rigors, When my people) defended themselves with me against the spears of the enemy, When I heard the cry of Murrah rise, and saw the two sons of Rabi'ah in the thick dust, I made sure that at the time of their encounter there would be a blow, When I saw the people, while their mass advanced, excite one another to fight, They were calling 'Antarah, while the spears were as though They were calling 'Antarah, while the swords were as They were calling 'Antarah, while the arrows were flying, They were calling "O 'Antarah," while the coats of mail shone with close rings, I did not cease charging the enemy, with the prominent part of his throat and breast, Then he turned on account of the falling of the spears on If he had known what conversation was, he would have complained with words, And verily the speech of the horsemen, While the horses sternly frowning were charging over the soft soil, My riding-camels are tractable, they go wherever I wish; Verily, it lay beyond my power that I should visit you; so, The lances of the tribe of Bagheez intercepted you and the perpetrators of the war And, verily, I turned the horse for the attack, while his neck And verily I feared that I should die, while there has not The two revilers of my honor, while I did not revile them, There is no wonder should they do so, for I left their father "Does the blackened ruin, situated in the stony ground "And is it her dwelling at the two stony meadows, seeming "The wild cows and the white deer are wandering about "I stood again near it, (the encampment of the tribe of "I recognized the three stones blackened by fire at the "And when I recognized the encampment I said to its site, "Look, oh my friend! do you see any women traveling on "They have covered their howdahs with coverlets of high "And they inclined toward the valley of Sooban, ascending "They arose early in the morning and got up at dawn, and "And amongst them is a place of amusement for the farsighted one, "As if the pieces of dyed wool which they left in every "When they arrived at the water, the mass of which was "They kept the hill of Qanan and the rough ground about "They came out from the valley of Sooban, then they "Then I swear by the temple, round which walk the men "An oath, that you are verily two excellent chiefs, who "The two endeavorers from the tribe of Ghaiz bin Murrah "You repaired with peace the condition of the tribes of "And indeed you said, 'if we bring about peace perfectly by the spending "You occupied by reason of this the best of positions, and "And you became great in the high nobility of Ma'add; "The memory of the wounds is obliterated by the hundreds "One tribe pays it to another tribe as an indemnity, while "Then there was being driven to them from the property "Now, convey from me to the tribe of Zubyan and their "Do not conceal from God what is in your breast that it "Either it will be put off and placed recorded in a book, "And war is not but what you have learnt it to be, and "When you stir it up, you will stir it up as an accursed "Then it will grind you as the grinding of the upper millstone "By my life I swear, how good a tribe it is upon whom "And he had concealed his hatred, and did not display it, "And he said, 'I will perform my object of avenging myself, "Then he attacked his victim from 'Abs, but did not cause "They allowed their animals to graze until when the interval "They accomplished their object amongst themselves, then "I have grown weary of the troubles of life; and he, "And I know what has happened to-day and yesterday, "I see death is like the blundering of a blind camel;---him "And he who does not act with kindness in many affairs "And he, who makes benevolent acts intervene before "He, who is possessed of plenty, and is miserly with his "He who keeps his word, will not be reviled; "And he who dreads the causes of death, they will reach "And he, who shows kindness to one not deserving it, his "And he who rebels against the butt ends of the spears, "And he who does not repulse with his weapons from his "And he who travels should consider his friend an enemy; "And he, who is always seeking to bear the burdens of "And whatever of character there is in a man, even though "He, who does not cease asking people to carry him, and "Many silent ones you see, pleasing to you, "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his "And verily, as to the folly of an old man "We asked of you, and you gave, and we returned to the Source. From: Charles F. Horne, ed., The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, (New York: Parke, Austin, & Lipscomb, 1917), Vol. V: Ancient Arabia, pp. 19-40. Scanned by Jerome S. Arkenberg, Cal. State Fullerton. The text has been modernized by Prof. Arkenberg.
Here was her abode on the edge of the sandy desert between Dakhool and Howmal.
For when the Sonth wind blows the sand over them the North wind sweeps it away.
The dung of the wild deer lies there thick as the seeds of pepper.
Amid the acacia-shrubs where my eyes were blinded with tears by the smart
from the bursting pods of colocynth.
They cry to me "Do not die of grief; bear this sorrow patiently."
Yet, is there any hope that this desolation can bring me solace ?
My fate had been the same with Ummul-Huwairith and her
neighbor Ummul-Rahab in Masal.
Like the soft zephyr bringing with it the scent of the clove.
The tears wetted even my sword-belt, so tender was my love.
Especially do I remember the day at the pool of Darat-i-Julju1.
How merry was their dividing my camel's trappings to be carried on their camels.
A wonder also was the slaughterer, so heedless of self in his costly gift!
The fat was woven with the lean like loose fringes of white twisted silk.
And she protested, saying, "Woe to you, you will force me to travel on foot."
She said, "You are galling my camel, Oh Imru-ul-Quais, so dismount."
Think not of the camel and our weight on him. Let us be happy.
I have won her thought to me, even from her children have I won her."
But she put aside my entreaties and swore an oath of virginity.
If you have, indeed, made up your mind to cut off friendship with me, then do it kindly or gently.
And that verily as often as you order my heart, it will do what you order?
Then put away my heart from your heart, and it will be put away.
Many a fair one, whose tent can not be sought by others, have I enjoyed playing with.
If they could conceal my murder, being unable to assail me openly.
As the appearance of the gems in the spaces in the ornamented girdle, set with pearls and gems.
I cannot expect that your erring habits will ever be removed from your nature."
The skirts of an embroidered woolen garment, to erase the footprints.
The middle of the open plain, with its sandy undulations and sandllills, we sought.
She was slender of waist, and full in the ankle.
Her breast shining polished like a mirror.
Pure water, unsullied by the descent of many people in it, has nourished her.
Like that of a wild animal, with young, in the desert of Wajrah.
It is neither disproportionate when she raises it, nor unornamented.
Black, very dark-colored, thick like a date-cluster on a heavily laden date-tree.
And the plaits are lost in the twisted hair, and the hair falling loose.
Her form is like the stem of a palm-tree bending over from the weight of its fruit.
She sleeps much in the morning; she does not need to gird her waist with a working dress.
In the evening she brightens the darkness, as if she were the light-tower of a monk.
She is well proportioned in height between the wearer of a long dress and of a short frock.
Many bitter counselors have warned me of the disaster of your love, but I turned away from them.
It has whelmed me as a wave of the sea to try me with sorrow.
As his breast, his loins, his buttocks weighed on me and then passed afar,
You are a wonder, with stars held up as by ropes of hemp to a solid rock."
And trod its empty wastes while the wolf howled like a gambler whose family starves.
What either of us gains he gives away. So do we remain thin."
Well-bred was he, long-bodied, outstripping the wild beasts in speed,
Bay-colored, and so smooth the saddle slips from him, as the rain from a smooth stone,
He continues at full gallop when other horses are dragging their feet in the dust for weariness.
Fast is my steed as a top when a child has spun it well.
From behind, his thick tail hides the space between his thighs, and almost sweeps the ground.
The blood of many leaders of herds is in him, thick as the juice of henna in combed white hair.
They turned for flight, but already he had passed the leaders before they could scatter.
Yet he did not even sweat so as to need washing.
For, when gazing at one part, the eye was drawn away by the perfection of another part.
He stood all night while I gazed at him admiring, and did not rest in his stable.
See its glittering, like the flash of two moving hands, amid the thick gathering clouds.
I sat down with my companions and watched the lightning and the coming storm.
Yet we could see its left end pouring down on Satar, and beyond that over Yazbul.
The spray of it drove the wild goats down from the hills of Quanan.
Nor a building, except those strengthened with heavy stones.
giant of our people draped in a striped cloak.
The peak of Mujaimir in the flood and rush of debris looked
like a whirling spindle.
As though a Yemani merchant were spreading out all the rich clothes from his trunks,
And burst forth in song after a morning draught of old, pure, spiced wine.
They were drowned and lost in the depths of the desert at evening.
and did you know the abode of your beloved after reflection?
until it spoke by means of signs, like one deaf and dumb.
with a yearning at the blackened stones,
keeping and standing firm in their own places.
submissive in the embrace, pleasant of smile.
talk with me about those who resided in you.
Good morning to you, O house of 'Ablah,
and be safe from ruin.
and it was as though she were a high palace;
in order that I might perform the wont of the lingerer.
while our people went to Eazan, then to Mutathallam.
so it became difficult for me to seek you, O daughter of Mahzam.
at a time when I was killing her people,
desiring her in marriage; but by your father's
life I swear, this was not the time for desiring.
so do not think otherwise than this, that you are my beloved.
while her people have taken up their residence
in the spring at 'Unaizatain and our people at Ghailam?
for, verily, your camels were bridled on a dark night.
except that the baggage camels of her people
were eating the seeds of the Khimkhim tree throughout the country.
black as the wing-feathers of black crows.
sweet as to its place of kissing, delicious of taste.
It was as though the musk bag of a merchant in his case of perfumes
preceded her teeth toward you from her mouth.
such as the kings of Rome preserve;
whose herbage the rain has guaranteed,
in which there is but little dung;
and which is not marked with the feet of animals.
and left every puddle in it bright and round like a dirham;
every evening, and is not cut off from it.
as is the act of the singing drunkard;
the striking on the flint of one, bent on the flint,
and cut off as to his palm.
of a well-stuffed couch, while I pass my nights on the back of
a bridled black horse.
big in his flanks, great of girth.
abode, who is cursed with an udder scanty of milk and cut off?
and she breaks up the mounds of earth she passes over with her foot with its sole, treading hard.
very small as to the distance between its two feet, and earless.
flock to a barbarous, unintelligible speaker.
as though it was a howdah on a large litter, tented for them.
eggs at Zil-'Ushairah; he is like a slave, with a long fur cloak and without ears.
being disgusted, from the pools of stagnant water.
one, whistling in the evening, a big, ugly-headed one;
turned toward him in anger, he met her with both claws and mouth.
as though she had knelt on a reed, broken, and emitting a cracking noise.
with which fire is lighted round the sides of a retort.
on a spreading forelock, short and well-bred.
built with cement, and rising high; and feet like the supports of a firmly pitched tent.
and bright swords of Indian make were dripping with my blood.
as the flash of the foretooth of your smiling mouth.
for, verily, I am expert in capturing the mailed horseman.
verily, when I am not ill-treated, I am gentle to associate with.
very bitter is the taste of it, as the taste of the colocynth.
buying it with the bright-stamped coin.
which was accompanied by a white-stoppered bottle on the lefthand side.
and my honor is great, and is not sullied.
and, as you know, so are my qualities and my liberality.
with his shoulders hissing like the side of the mouth of one with a split lip.
and with the drops of blood from a penetrating stroke, red like the color of Brazil wood.
If you were ignorant, concerning what you did not know about my condition,
wounded, sturdy horse, against whom the warriors came in succession.
and at another he joins the large host with their bows tightly strung.
but I abstain at the time of taking the booty.
but my bashfulness and my magnanimity hold me back from them.
neither a hastener in flight, nor a surrenderer;
Inflicting a wound wide of its two sides, the sound of the flow of blood from it leads
at night the prowling wolves, burning with hunger.
for the noble one is not forbidden to the spears.
and gnaw the beauty of his fingers and wrist.
I have split open the links of it with a sword,
off one defending his rights,
and renowned for bravery.
a tearer-down of the signs of the wine-sellers, and one reproached for his extravagance.
he showed his teeth, but without smiling.
and he was as if his fingers and his head were dyed with indigo.
pure of steel, and keen.
A warrior, so stately in size as if his clothes were on a high tree:
soft leather shoes are worn by him and he is not twinned.
to whom is she lawful? To me she is unlawful;
would to God that she was not unlawful.
"Go, find out news of her and inform me."
and that the doe is possible to him who is shooting."
a doe, a fawn of the gazelles, pure and with a white upper lip.
while ingratitude is a cause of evil to the soul of the giver.
when the two lips quiver from off the white teeth of the mouth,
except with an unintelligible noise.
I did not refrain from the spears through cowardice,
but the place of my advance had become too strait.
While the tribe of Muhallam were struggling under their banners,
and death was under the banners of the tribe of Mulhallam,
which would make the heads fly from the bodies,
as the bird flies from off her young ones sitting close.
I turned against them without being reproached for any want of bravery.
they were well-ropes in the breast of Adham.
though they were the flash of lightnings in a dark cloud.
as though they were a flight of locusts, hovering above watering places.
shining as though they were the eyeballs of frogs floating in a wavy pond.
until he became covered with a shirt of blood.
his breast, and complained to me with tears and whinnyings.
and verily he would have, had he known speech, talked with me.
"Woe to you, 'Antarah, advance, and attack the enemy,"
cured my soul and removed its sickness.
being partly the long-bodied mares, and partly the long-bodied, well-bred horses.
while my intellect is my helper, and I drive it forward with a firm order.
know what you have known, and some of what you have not known.
set aside those who did not perpetrate it.
was bleeding, until the horses began to shun me.
yet been a turn for war against the two sons of Zamzam;
and the threateners of my blood, when I did not see them.
a prey for the wild beasts and every large old vulture.
between Durraj and Mutathallam, which did not speak to me,
when addressed, belong to the abode of Ummi Awfa?
as though they were the renewed tattoo marks in the sinews
of the wrist?
there, one herd behind the other, while their young are spring-
ing up from every lying-down place.
Awfa,) after an absence of twenty years, and with some efforts,
I know her abode again after thinking awhile.
place where the kettle used to be placed at night, and the
trench round the encampment, which had not burst, like the source of a pool.
'Now good morning, oh spot;
may you be safe from dangers.'
camels, going over the high ground above the stream of
Jurthum?
value, and with a thin screen, the fringes of which are red,
resembling blood.
the center of it, and in their faces were the fascinating
looks of a soft-bodied person brought up in easy circumstances.
they went straight to the valley of Rass as the hand goes
unswervingly to the mouth, when eating.
and a pleasant sight for the eye of the looker who
looks attentively.
place in which they halted, were the seeds of night-shade
which have not been crushed.
blue from intense purity, they laid down their walking sticks,
like the dweller who has pitched his tents.
it on their hand; while there are many, dwelling in Qanan,
the shedding of whose blood is lawful and unlawful.
crossed it, riding in every Qainian howdah
new and widened.
who built it from the tribes
of Quraysh and Turhum.
are found worthy of honor in every condition, between ease
and distress.
strove in making peace after the connection between the
tribes had become broken, on account of the shedding of blood.
'Abs and Zubyan, after they had fought with one another, and
ground up the perfume of Manshim between them.
of money and the conferring of benefits, and by good words,
we shall be safe from the danger of the two tribes, destroying each other.'
became far from the reproach of being
undutiful and sinful.
may you be guided in the right way; and he who spends his
treasure of glory will become great.
of camels, and he, who commenced paying off the blood money
by instalments, was not guilty of it (i.e., of making war).
they who gave the indemnity did not shed blood sufficient for
the filling of a cupping glass.
you inherited, a booty of various sorts from young camels
with slit ears.
allies a message,--- 'verily you have sworn by every sort of
oath to keep the peace.'
may be hidden; whatever is concealed,
God knows all about it.
and preserved there until the judgment day;
or the punishment be hastened and so he will take revenge.
what you have experienced, and what is said concerning it,
is not a story based on suppositions.
thing, and it will become greedy when you excite its greed
and it will rage fiercely.
against the lower, and it will conceive immediately after
one birth and it will produce twins.
Husain Bin Zamzam brought an injury by committing a
crime which did not please them.
and did not proceed to carry out his intention until he got a
good opportunity.
and I will guard myself from my enemy with a thousand
bridled horses behind me.'
fear to the people of the many houses, near which death had
thrown down his baggage.
between the hours of drinking was finished, they took them to the deep pool,
which is divided by weapons and by shedding of blood.
they led the animals back to the pasture of unwholesome
indigestible grass.
who lives eighty years will, may you have no father
if you doubt grow weary.
before it, but verily, of the knowledge of what will happen
tomorrow; I am ignorant.
whom he meets he kills, and he whom he misses lives and will
become old.
will be torn by teeth
and trampled under foot.
honor, increases his honor;
and he, who does not avoid abuse, will be abused.
great wealth toward his people, will be dispensed with,
and abused.
and he whose heart is guided to self-satisfying benevolence
will not stammer.
him, even if he ascends the tracts of the heavens
with a ladder.
praise will be a reproach against him, and he will repent of
having shown kindness.
then verily he will have to obey the spear points joined to
every long spear shaft.
tank, will have it broken; and he who does not oppress the
people will be oppressed.
and he who does not respect himself
will not be respected.
other people, and does not excuse himself from it,
will one day by reason of his abasement, repent.
he thinks it concealed from people,
it is known.
does not make himself independent of them even for one day
of the time, will be regarded with disgust.
but their excess in wisdom or deficiency
will appear at the time of talking.
mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape
of the blood and the flesh.
there is no wisdom after it,
but the young man after his folly may become wise.
asking and you returned to the giving, and he who increases
the asking, will one day be disappointed."
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