Arabic was the language of French aristocrats Before the Terror

Mu'allaqa

Both the word thunder and the word picnic are of course Arabic.

Indeed, Arabic was the language of French aristocrats

Before the Terror, bad body odor perfumed.

It is the language of the great Robert Frost poems,

Which have the suicide bomber's innocence

Walking safely past the checkpoint into the crowd.

Imru' al-Qais
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