Prayer

Poem by Ubayd-i Zakani (14th century), tr. Bernard Lewis in Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), p. 127: Lord, of your grace all that I hope is this— keep the realm of my pleasure prosperous avert from me the calamity of chastity and keep far from me the doom of repentence.

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