Monday, June 28, 2010

ON THE RUIN OF THE BARMECIDES.

Translated into English Verse by J. D. Carlyle, BD



NO, Barmec! time hath never shown
   So sad a change of wayward fate;
 Nor sorrowing mortals ever known
   A grief so true, a loss so great.

Spouse of the world! thy soothing breast
   Did balm to every woe afford;
 And now, no more by thee caressed,
   The widowed world bewails her lord.

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