Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: On a Miser, by Ebn Alrumi

ON A MISER. BY THE SAME. HANG her—a thoughtless, wasteful fool, She scatters corn where’er she goes!" Quoth Hassan, angry at his mule, That dropped a dinner to the crows. Next: To Cassim Obid Allah, On the Death of One of His Sons, by Ali Ben Ahmed Ben Mansour