parting-threat

Updated: May 10, 2025

"'The time of parting, cry they, 'draweth nigh': * 'How oft this parting-threat? I but reply: I've naught to do but cross the wild and wold * And, mile by mile, o'er fountless wastes to fly, If the beloved seek another land * Sons of the road, whereso they wend, wend I. I make desire direct me to their side, * The guide to show me where the way doth lie."

Anonymous - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05