“Cease, Man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; enjoy thy shining hour of sun;
We dance along Death's icy brink, but is the dance less full of fun?”

—  Richard Francis Burton

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

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