خَفِّفِ الوَطْءَ مَا أَظُنُّ أَدِيمَ
الأَرْضِ إِلَّا مِنْ هَذِهِ الأَجْسَادِ
Tread lightly, for I think the surface
Of the earth is but these bodies
المصدر · Source: Luzum ma la Yalzam. Trans. A. Rihani (1918)
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