burai

Updated: May 12, 2025

I will quote in free translation the following production of the celebrated poet Abd el Rahman el Burai, as a perfect specimen of melancholy Arab imagery: "No exile is the banished to the latter end of earth, The exile is the banished to the coffin and the tomb "He hath claims on the dwellers in the places of their birth Who wandereth the world, for he lacketh him a home.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - First Footsteps in East Africa