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TEARS by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA

First Line: TEARS, ERE THY DEATH, FOR MANY A ONE I SHED
Last Line: (R. A. NICHOLSON)
Subject(s): BROTHERS; DEATH; GRIEF; TEARS; WAR; HALF-BROTHERS; DEAD, THE; SORROW; SADNESS;
TEARS, ere thy death, for many a one I shed,
But thine are all my tears since thou art dead.
To comforters I lend my ear apart,
While pain sits ever closer to my heart.

(@3R. A. Nicholson@1)



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