(Boylove Documentary Sourcebook) - The Conventional Pederastic Medieval Andalusi Arabic Lyrical Motif of the Secondary Hair Growth of a Young Male Beloved Signalling the Decline in His Physical Attractiveness, as Featured in a Poem by Ibn al-Ḥājj
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From The Banners of the Champions: An Anthology of Medieval Arabic Poetry from Andalusia and Beyond (رايات المبرزين وغايات المميزين Rāyāt al-mubarrizīn wa-ghāyāt al-mumayyazīn, 1243) by Ibn Saʿid al-Maghribī, selected and translated by James A. Bellamy and Patricia Owen Steiner (Madison, Wisconsin: Hispanic Seminary in Medieval Studies, 1989).
Once you were a moon on the night of its fullness, but then night decreed that you should set;
Your first beard appeared and I said: “Love is gone. The raven has announced our separation.”
fl. 12th century