Poems Of The Maghreb

POEMS OF THE MAGHREB

[ Translated by M.C. Sonneck and Chauncey C. Starkweather ]

ALI'S ANSWER

[ARGUMENT.--It is related that a young man named Aly ben Bou Fayd, falling in love with a young woman, begged his father to ask her in marriage for him. His father refused. Angered, Aly procured a gun, engraved his name upon it, and betook himself to the chase. His father having claimed this gun he answered:]

His uncle having threatened him with death, he answered:

IN HONOR OF LALLA AYCHA-EL-MANNOUBYYA

SAYD AND HYZYYA

khelkals

galam

THE AÏSSAOUA IN PARIS58]

This lively poem was composed by him on they occasion of the departure for Paris of a band of musicians, singers, and Aissaoua, who figured at the Exposition of 1867, under the direction of a professor of music named Salvador Daniel. The original is in couplets of six hemistichs.

meqrout

SONG OF FATIMA59

khelkal

THE CITY GIRL AND THE COUNTRY GIRL

tolba

zeqqoum

mym ha

mym dal