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Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.

William Muir

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William Muir

Born: April 27, 1819
Died: July 11, 1905 (aged 86)
Bio: Sir William Muir, KCSI was a Scottish Orientalist, scholar of Islam, and colonial administrator.
Known for:
  1. The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline, and Fall (1891)
  2. The life of Mahomet (1861)
  3. The Coran
  4. Mameluke or Slave Dynasty of Egypt (1896)

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