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Arabian Poetry for English Readers/The Moallakát

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THE

MOALLAKÁT,

OR

Seven Arabian Poems,

WHICH WERE SUSPENDED ON

THE TEMPLE AT MECCA.


TRANSLATED, WITH ARGUMENTS,

BY

SIR WILLIAM JONES.

The Poems entitled Almoällakât exhibit an exact picture of their virtues and their vices, their wisdom and their folly; and show what may be constantly expected from men of open hearts and boiling passions, with no law to control, and little religion to restrain them.Sir W. Jones: Discourse on The Arabs.