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His throat was dry, for before the night was half over he had drunk the little water he carried; but the Arab song still came from his lips: "Doos ya lellee! Doos ya lellee! Tread, O joy of my life, tread lightly! Thy feet are the wings of a dove, And thy heart is of fire. On thy wounds I will pour the king's salve.
I will hang On thy neck the long chain of wrought gold, When the gates of Bagdad are before us Doos ya lellee! Doos ya lellee!" He did not cease singing it until the camel had staggered in beneath the dom-trees where Ebn Mazar waited. Macnamara threw himself on the ground beside the prostrate camel which had carried him so well, and gasped, "Water!"
As she arranged her skirt and settled herself, from an earthen drum just outside the house and an arghool there came a crude sound of native music, to which almost immediately added itself a high and quavering voice, singing: "Doos ya' lellee! Doos ya' lellee!" At the same moment Aïyoub came into the room, without noise, and handed to Baroudi, who was sitting opposite to Mrs.
His throat was dry, for before the night was half over he had drunk the little water he carried; but the Arab song still came from his lips: "Doos ya lellee! Doos ya lellee! Tread, O joy of my life, tread lightly! Thy feet are the wings of a dove, And thy heart is of fire. On thy wounds I will pour the king's salve.
I will hang On thy neck the long chain of wrought gold, When the gates of Bagdad are before us Doos ya lellee! Doos ya lellee!" He did not cease singing it until the camel had staggered in beneath the dom-trees where Ebn Mazar waited. Macnamara threw himself on the ground beside the prostrate camel which had carried him so well, and gasped, "Water!"
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