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THE TAILOR'S APPRENTICE by IBN KHARUF

First Line: SONS OF MUGHIRA! I LOVE WELL
Last Line: WITH THREADS OF LIGHTNING IN THEIR WAKE.

Sons of Mughira! I love well
Among your tribe a young gazelle;
Your lances' shadows guard him so,
He needs not to his thorn to go.

His stool, the steed he rides upon
Rejoices in its champion
Armed with the needle that he plies
Sharp as the lashes of his eyes.

The needle o'er the silken dress
Careers with wondrous nimbleness,
As down the sky bright meteors snake
With threads of lightning in their wake.



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