Moorish Spain by Richard Fletcher

Author:Richard Fletcher [FLETCHER, RICHARD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Published: 2015-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

His son al-Mu’tamid was even more accomplished. Here he remembers his youth in Silves:

Salute, oh Abu Bakr, my dwellings in Silves,

And ask them: do they still keep our tender pact of love?

Give the Castle of the Verandahs the greetings

Of a youth who constantly longs for that castle,

The dwellings of fierce lions and of beauteous maidens:

What lion caves they were, what charming boudoirs!

Many a night I spent, enjoying their shadows,

With maidens round-hipped, yet slim of waist:

Their white and brown beauty pierced my heart

Like white blood-spilling swords and points of brown lances!

And those nights playfully spent on the river dam

With a girl whose armband was like the curve of the crescent!

She would pour out wine for me in her bewitching glances,

And in the cup at times, at times in her kisses:

The tunes of her lute thrilled me, as if

I heard in those chords the clash of swordblades.

Then she let her robe fall, her splendid form seeming

To be a bud unfolding from a cluster of blossoms.

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