"Deem not that absence breeds in me aught of forgetfulness; * What should remember I did you fro' my remembrance wane? Time dies but never dies the fondest love for you we bear; * And in your love I'll die and in your love I'll arise again."[FN#20]
When the Prince heard these verses, the fires of longing flamed up in his heart and pine and passion redoubled upon him. Grief and regret were sore upon him and his bowels yearned in him for love of the King's daughter of Sana'a; so he rose forthright and, escaping his father's notice, went forth the palace to the horse and mounting it, turned the pin of ascent, whereupon bird-like it flew with him high in air and soared towards the upper regions of the sky. In early morning his father missed him and, going up to the pinnacle of the palace, in
