it-ward

Updated: June 14, 2025

Lift not your hands to the rose, for long have the lashes waged war And poured on us battle, because we lifted to it-ward our eyes. The honey's protected, forsooth, by the sting of the bees of the hive: So question the guards of the camp why they stay us in this our emprise.

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