Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 495
would not have been different if his mo-ther had really been dead, except that if shehad been the only one dead in the village,many of the people would have joined him,and moaned and wailed with him; he wouldnot have been left alone. All that were left had misery enough of theirown to wail about… … YAMOUD WAILING FOR HIS to be sold as slaves in distant countries. Theywould never return to Mutah — not one ofthem. In the spontaneous poetry to which theArabic is so easily adaptable, Yamoud put histhoughts into words, and sang his sorrow in alow, sad chant, often closing a line with a pro-longed,…
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