“With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne,
And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.”

— William R. Alger

"Mussud's Praise of the Camel", p. 257.
Poetry of the Orient, 1893 edition

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American clergyman and poet 1822–1905

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