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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALAS FOR YOUTH, by FIRDAUSI
First Line: Much have I labored, much read o'er
Last Line: "alas for youth, for youth gone by!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Firdosi; Abul Kasim Mansur; Firdusa; Abu Ol-qase
Subject(s): Youth
First Line: Much have I labored, much read o'er
Last Line: "alas for youth, for youth gone by!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Firdosi; Abul Kasim Mansur; Firdusa; Abu Ol-qase
Subject(s): Youth
MUCH have I labored, much read o'er
Of Arabic and Persian lore,
Collecting tales unknown and known;
Now two and sixty years are flown.
Regret, and deeper woe of sin,
'Tis all that youth has ended in,
And I with mournful thoughts rehearse
Bu Táhir Khusrawáni's verse:
"I mind me of my youth and sigh,
Alas for youth, for youth gone by!"
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