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One day, Haroun Al Raschid read / A book wherein the poet said: --
"Where are the kings, and where the rest / Of those who once the world possessed?
"They're gone with all their pomp and show, / They're gone the way that thou shalt go.
"O thou who choosest for thy share / The world, and what the world calls fair,
"Take all that it can give or lend, / But know that death is at the end!"
Haroun Al Raschid bowed his head: / Tears fell upon the page he read.