Nino Baki
Oil on canvas
1959
20" x 14"

Flower by the river
Freshly blowing
Beauty all a-quiver
Proudly glowing;

O'er its petals playing
Breeze unbidden,
Loveliness displaying
Secrets hiden.
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— "Youth", by 'Abd al-Wahhab 'Azzam. Modern Arabic poetry: An anthology with English verse translations, by Arthur J. Arberry (Cambridge University Press, 1950): 40.