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Erotic love (ghazal)
Bring her out, swaying like a wild cow \\ Amid five of her age, with swelling breasts.
A cloistered one is she, the texture of her cheeks \\ Suffused with the water of youth.
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"Do you love her?" they asked. Said I, "Much -- \\ To the number of stars and peblles and grains of dust!"
Her fatal charms, her neck, enhanced \\ By a colouring that glittered like gold,
Recalled the glory of the sun \\ Emerging from darkness and clouds.
-- Umar ibn Abi Rabi`a (644-712 or 721)
