"Sought me this heart's dear love at gloom of night; * I rose in honour till he sat forthright, And said, 'O aim of mine, O sole desire * In such night-visit hast of guards no fright?' Replied he, 'Yes, I feared much, but Love * Robbed me of all my wits and reft my sprite.' We clipt with kisses and awhile clung we, * For here 'twas safe; nor feared we watchman-wight: Then rose we parting without doubtful deed * And shook out skirts where none a stain could sight."
--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.
When it was the Seven Hundred and Thirty-fourth Night,
She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when her lover visited Hayat al-Nufus in her palace, the twain embraced and she improvised some happy couplets beseeming the occasion. An
