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ARABIAN POETRY FOR ENGLISH READERS. EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY W. A. CLOUSTON. The Arabian Poets were the historians and moralists of the age; and if they sympathised with the prejudices, they inspired and crowned the virtues of their countrymen: the indissoluble union of generosity and valour was the darling theme of their song.— Gibbon. Glasgow: (printed privately) M’Laren and Son, printers [1881] Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, October 2007 by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923. Click to enlarge Frontispiece Gilmour & Dean Lith. Glasgow. (text at base of Frontispiece) Click to enlarge