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Updated: May 22, 2025
Though I was quick as the quick-eyed falcon, I discovered nought, flying ever at false game, A follower of misleading beams, A cheated soul, the mock of dreams. At times I thought that it was the King of Oolb was my father, and plotted to come in his path; and there were kings and princes of far countries whom I sought to encounter, that they might claim me; but none claimed me.
Shibli Bagarag thought, 'There's scarce a doubt but that one of those sails will set for Oolb shortly.
and he says also: "Greatness is solely for them that succeed; 'Tis a rotten applause that gives earlier meed." Therefore it is advisable for thee to follow me on board without loss of time, and we will sail this very night for the City of Oolb. Now, Shibli Bagarag was ruled by the words of the captain albeit he desired to stay awhile and receive the homage of the people of that city.
And the King of Oolb peered on Baba Mustapha, crying, 'Even this fellow I bastinadoed! And the King of Gaf, that was Kresnuk, famous in the annals of the time, said aloud, 'I'm amazed at the pertinacity of this barber! To my court he came, searching some silly nephew, and would have shaved us all in spite of our noses; yea, talked my chief Vizier into a dead sleep, and so thinned him.
Go, then, and take thy Princess, and obtain permission of the King of Oolb, her father, to wed her, O Karaz! The hawk whistled with laughter, and the Genie was stung with its mockeries, and clutched the Princess of Oolb in a bunch, and arose from the ground with her, slanting up the night-air like fire, till he was seen high up even as an angry star reddening the seas beneath.
I must go to counteract the machinations of Karaz, for he's at once busy, vindictive, and cunning, and there's no time for us to lose; so farewell, my betrothed, and make thy wits keen to know me when we next meet. So he said, 'And I whither go I? She answered, 'To the City of Oolb straightway. Then he, 'But I know not its bearing from this spot: how reach it?
Now, when they were shaved, fear smote them, the fear of ridicule, and each laughed at the change that was in the other; but the King cried, 'See that order is issued for the people of Oolb to be as we before to-morrow's sun. So is laughter taken in reverse. And the King said aside to Shibli Bagarag, 'Say now, what may be thy price for yonder hawk?
And I loved them as their own child, witting not but that I was their child, till on a day while I played among some children of my years, the daughter of the King of Oolb passed by us on a mule, with her slaves and drawn swords, and called to me, 'Thou little castaway! and had me brought to her, and peered upon my face in a manner that frightened me, for I was young.
He answered, 'Native, O King, to Shiraz; newly from the City of Shagpat. And the King asked, 'How is it with that hairy wonder? He answered, 'The dark forest flourisheth about him. And the King said, 'That is well! We of the City of Oolb take our fashions from them of the City of Shagpat, and it is but yesterday that I bastinadoed a barber that strayed among us.
Then said he, 'This is so: thou art not my child; but I love thee as mine, O my little Desert-flower; and why the Princess should fancy fear of thee I like not to think; but fear thou her, for she is a mask of wiles and a vine trailing over pitfalls; such a sorceress the world knoweth not as Goorelka of Oolb.
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