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Updated: May 31, 2025
'It was my nurse, long since dead, who was the depositary of the injunction, and in due time conveyed it to me. 'And what was it? 'To raise, at Deir el Kamar, the capital of our district, a marble temple to the Syrian goddess. 'Beautiful idea! 'It would have drawn back the mountain to the ancient faith; the Druses are half-prepared, and wait only my word.
Then go not thou, my very light of eyes * Which, when thou'rt gone, lack all the Kohl of light." Then Marzawan returned to his mother's house, where he passed the night. But arriving at Al-Tayrab city, he heard that Kamar al-Zaman, son of King Shahriman, was fallen sick and afflicted with melancholy madness.
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Kamar al- Zaman agreed with his wife, Queen Budur, upon this matter and told King Armanus what she had said; whereat he rejoiced with great joy.
She stole one glance of eyes that cost her a thousand sighs: her heart fluttered, and her vitals throbbed and her hands and feet quivered; and she said to Kamar al-Zaman "Talk to me, O my lord! Speak to me, O my friend! Answer me, O my beloved, and tell me thy name, for indeed thou hast ravished my wit!"
Presently, he looked up at a tree and saw two birds quarrelling thereon, and one of them rose up and smote the other with its beak on the neck and severed from its body its head, wherewith it flew away, whilst the slain bird fell to the ground before Kamar al-Zaman.
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Kamar al- Zaman said to his sire, "O my father, allow this youth to come and sit by my side."
Quoth the King, "My name is King Ghayur and I come wayfaring in quest of my daughter Budur whom fortune hath taken from me, for she left me and returned not to me, nor have I heard any tidings of her or of her husband Kamar al-Zaman. Have ye any news of them?"
Then both women wept with sore weeping before King Kamar al-Zaman who, when he saw their tears and heard their words, concluded that their story was true and, waxing wroth beyond measure of wrath, went forth thinking to fall upon his two sons and put them to death.
Thus far concerning the King and Princess Shams al-Nahar; but as regards Prince Kamar al-Akmar, when he had risen high in air, he turned his horse's head towards his native land, and being alone mused upon the beauty of the Princess and her loveliness. Then he entered, as of wont, and found his father and mother and sisters clad in mourning raiment of black, all pale of faces and lean of frames.
At this Kamar al-Zaman rejoiced and began repeating, "Part not from one whose wont is not to part from you; * Nor with your cruel taunts an innocent mortify: Another so long parted had ta'en heart from you, * And had his whole condition changed, but not so I."
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