smain's

Updated: January 6, 2026

All this I knew from the sound of Smain's flute. I told it to Safti, and bade him ask Smaïn if it were not true. Smain's reply was: "She is more beautiful than that; she is like the young gazelle, and like the first day after the fast of Ramadan."

Robert Smythe Hichens - Smaïn; and Safti's Summer Day: 1905