--- Abdullah Ibn al-Mu'tazz, from Birds through a ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid poets, transl. by G. B. H. Wightman and A. Y. al-Udhari
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Delays in Baghdad worried me;
Journeys seldom turn out as planned.
I was detained too long in town,
A eunuch clutched by an old crone.
