I. Minstrel's Book - The Four Favours

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Minstrel's Book: The Four Favours

 

THAT Arabs through the realms of space

May wander on, light-hearted,
Great Allah hath, to all their race,

Four favours meet imparted.

The turban first--that ornament

All regal crowns excelling;
A light and ever-shifting tent,

Wherein to make our dwelling;

A sword, which, more than rocks and walls

Doth shield us, brightly glistening;
A song that profits and enthrall,

For which the maids are list'ning!

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Content of I. Minstrel's Book: The Four Favours [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem collection: West-Eastern Divan]

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