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On receiving the Gift of a Book
It is more beautiful than a rose in the silver dew
And than a jewel on a beautiful little gazelle.
It came to us from far away horizons,
Through the waves and the sea abysses.
Since it arrived it feels like a festival,
We do not need anything else.
1
Saᶜīd ibn Ḥakam
1 From the Spanish translation in M. J. Rubiera, “La corte literaria de Ibn Saᶜid de Menorca,” Revista de Menorca 75
(1984), p. 132.
On receiving the Gift of a Book
It is more beautiful than a rose in the silver dew
And than a jewel on a beautiful little gazelle.
It came to us from far away horizons,
Through the waves and the sea abysses.
Since it arrived it feels like a festival,
We do not need anything else.
1
Saᶜīd ibn Ḥakam
1 From the Spanish translation in M. J. Rubiera, “La corte literaria de Ibn Saᶜid de Menorca,” Revista de Menorca 75
(1984), p. 132.
