choeroes

Updated: June 26, 2025

I will not gainsay thee in this; but pass not more than one night in the desert and return to me on the morrow; for thou knowest that life is not good to me without thee, and indeed I can hardly as yet credit thy recovery, because thou art to me as he of whom quoth the poet: Though Solomon his carpet were mine both day and night, Though the Choeroes' empire, yea, and the world were mine, All were to me in value less than a midge's wing, Except mine eyes still rested upon that face of thine.

Anonymous - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III