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ALAS FOR YOUTH by FIRDAUSI

First Line: MUCH HAVE I LABORED, MUCH READ O'ER
Last Line: "ALAS FOR YOUTH, FOR YOUTH GONE BY!"
Subject(s): YOUTH;

MUCH have I labored, much read o'er
Of Arabic and Persian lore,
Collecting tales unknown and known;
Now two and sixty years are flown.
Regret, and deeper woe of sin,
'Tis all that youth has ended in,
And I with mournful thoughts rehearse
Bu Táhir Khusrawáni's verse:
"I mind me of my youth and sigh,
Alas for youth, for youth gone by!"



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