"They ruled awhile and theirs was harsh tyrannic rule, * But soon that rule went by as though it never were: If just they had won justice; but they sinned, and so * The world collected all its bane for them to bear: So died they and their case's tongue declares aloud * This is for that so of the world your blaming spare."
And when her verse was ended she called to mind her lord Ali Shar and wept flowing tears; but presently recovered herself and said, "Haply Allah, who hath given mine enemies into my hand, will vouchsafe me the speedy return of my beloved;" and she begged forgiveness of Allah (be He extolled and exalted')--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.
When it was the Three Hundred and Twenty-fourth Night,
She said, It hath reached me, O au
