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Classic and Contemporary Poetry

THE RIVER by IBN SA'ID OF ALCALA LA REAL

First Line: THE RIVER IS A PAGE
Last Line: HIS MESSAGE THERE.
The river is a page
Of parchment white;
The breeze, that author sage,
There loves to write.

And when the magic screed
Is finished fair,
The bough leans down, to read
His message there.



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