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Lamii (Mohammed Ben Osman Ben Ali Nakkash)
Poems from Oriental Languages: Description of Morning
(Turkish—Sixteenth Century)
Translation in Dublin University Magazine
Translation in Dublin University Magazine
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Another morning rises red;
The silver stars that twinkle
Through saffron curtains here and there
Gleam like the pearls that sprinkle
A virgin’s golden hair.
New beams and brighter smile
Along the skies, and while
Aurora’s colors clamber
The mountains of the dawn,
The sun, a globe of amber,
In silentness has drawn
Within his own warm sphere, as morn by morn he draws
Each glistening straw that strews the Way of Straws.