DESERT FRUIT The Dates of Al Jufrah Do not love me my master like a palm that the wind caresses and then leaves languishing Do not love me my master like a door that the hurried man constantly pulls and pushes Love me my master like a date that the glutton sucks voluptuously down to the pit‌ [Popular Arab ballad quoted by Giorgio Assan; La Libia e il mondo arabo; Rome, Editori Riuniti, 1959; p. 25]
Desert Fruit The dates of Al Jufrah
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