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Ghazal Of Sayyid Ahmad

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My heart is torn by the tyranny of women very quietly;     Day and night my tears are wearing away my cheeks very quietly.     Life is a red thing like the sun setting very quietly;     Setting quickly and heavily and very quietly.     If you are to buy heaven by a good deed, to-day the market is open;     To-morrow is a day when no man buys,     And the caravan is broken up very quietly.     The kings are laughing and the slaves are laughing; but for your sake     Sayyid Ahmad is walking and mourning very quietly.     From the Pus'hto (Afghans, nineteenth century).

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