(Stories in poems) Spain
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Taken from: Al Maqamat al Luzumiyah
Maqamah 38 (The Ape)
Sometimes (the ape) it mounted the donkey and played a lively tune on the reed, beating the cymbal, claiming descent from the Zanj, and behaving like a veritable flirt and coquet, while the old man would say to it; O son of a she-ape and brother of merriment..........
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Taken from: Al Maqamat al Luzumiyah
Maqamah 38 (The Ape)
Sometimes (the ape) it mounted the donkey and played a lively tune on the reed, beating the cymbal, claiming descent from the Zanj, and behaving like a veritable flirt and coquet, while the old man would say to it; O son of a she-ape and brother of merriment..........