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"Yes," replied he; "none knows Jemil's verses better than I." And he repeated the following: "Up and away to the holy war, Jemil!" they say; and I, "What have I to do with waging war except among the fair?" If I say to Butheineh, "What is this love, that eateth my life away?" She answers, "Tis rooted fast in thy heart and will increase fore'er."
Presently, she heard Zoulmekan weeping and repeating the following verses: The southern lightning gleams in the air And rouses in me the old despair, The grief for a dear one, loved and lost, Who filled me the cup of joy whilere. It minds me of her who fled away And left me friendless and sick and bare. O soft-shining lightnings, tell me true, Are the days of happiness past fore'er?
Know that the things of the world not, as thou wilt, befall, But as the Great God orders, to whom all kings are thrall! And lastly these: Take heart and rejoice and forget thine every woe, For even the wit of the wise is eaten away by care. What shall thought-taking profit a helpless, powerless slave? Leave it and be at peace in joy enduring fore'er!
Soon even my childish voice was stilled, because I had ceased to hear any sound. But all was not lost! After all, sight and hearing are but two of the beautiful blessings which God had given me. The most precious, the most wonderful of His gifts was still mine. My mind remained clear and active, "though fled fore'er the light."
So she wept for his loss and absence and repeated the following verses: O ye who went and left my heart to pine alone fore'er, No spark of life remains in me, since ye away did fare! I have an eye that doth complain of sleeplessness alway; Tears have consumed it; would to God that sleeplessness would spare!
Presently, he espied a tree, by whose side was a spring of running water; so he made towards it and sitting down in the shade, on the bank of the rivulet, essayed to drink, but found that the water had no taste in his mouth. So he shed copious tears and repeated the following verses: The lover is drunken with love of his fair; In longing and heat he redoubles fore'er.
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