"Patient I seemed, yet Patience shown by me * Was but self-guiling till thy sight I see: Had my soul done as due my life had gone, * Had fled before mankind forestalling thee: Then, after me and thee none shall to friend * Be just, nor any soul with soul agree."
Then she sobbed a single sob and gave up the ghost. We dug one grave for them and laid them in the earth, and I returned to the dwellings of my people, where I abode seven years. Then I betook me again to Al-Hijaz and entering Al-Medinah the Illumined for pious visitation said in my mind, "By Allah, I will go again to Otbah's tomb!" So I repaired thither, and, behold, over the grave was a tall tree, on which hung fillets of red and green and yellow stuffs.[FN#93] So I asked the people of the place, "How be this tree called?"; and
