6/27/2023 0 Comments The city of brass![]() Swiftly these pulled down the walls that their fathers had made them – Panders avowed to the crowd whatsoever its lust is. ![]() Of the tribe which describe with a jibe the perversions of Justice – Men swift to see done, and outrun, their extremest commanding – They chose themselves prophets and priests of minute understanding, To declare: “We prepare it to-day and inherit to-morrow.” To decree a new earth at a birth without labour or sorrow – They rose to suppose themselves kings over all things created – When the wine stirred in their heart their bosoms dilated. Till they grew drunk and were smitten with madness and went to their fall,Īnd of these is a story written: but Allah Alone knoweth all! In a land that the sand overlays – the ways to her gates are untrod –Ī multitude ended their days whose gates were made splendid by God, ![]() “Here was a people whom after their works thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion:and in this palace is the last information respecting lords collected in the dust.” –The Arabian Nights. ![]()
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