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77 – Abu ʿAbd Allah al-ʿAttar related to me: Yazid ibn Harun used to recite:
I awake, each limb too feeble to support the other—
as though my youth had been a loan once granted.
That loan has now been called in, as repayment was ordained,
and I am left a shriveled, cast-off staff.
٧٧ - حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْعَطَّارُ قَالَ: كَانَ يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ يَتَمَثَّلُ:
[البحر الرجز]
أَصْبَحْتُ لَا يَحْمِلُ بَعْضِي بَعْضَا ... كَأَنَّمَا كَانَ شَبَابِي قَرْضَا
فَاسْتُودِيَ الْقَرْضُ وَكَانَ فَرْضَا ... وَصِرْتُ عُودًا ذَاوِيًا مُرْفَضَّا