Fa-la, f�-l�, n. an old kind of madrigal.

With a fa-la, fa-la, fa-la-la!

Or would you prefer that I whistle into the opening of this door-key, to the effect that we must gather our rose-buds while we may, for Time is still a-flying, fa-la, and that a drear old age, not to mention our spouses, will soon descend upon us, fa-la-di-leero?

"With a fa-la—" And the chorus was roar'd forth, with shouts of laughter and clinking of glasses.

In the piece now under consideration, it is the second Bayt where the characteristic foot of the Wáfir first appears:—           U - - - | U - U U | U - - |           Naat 'anní'l-rubú'u wa sákiníhá           U - U U - | U - U U - | U - - |           Wa kad ba'uda 'l-mazáru fa-lá mazáru.