The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Anonymous
page 338 of 531 (63%)
page 338 of 531 (63%)
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poet,
"Grapes tasting with the taste of wine * Whose coats like blackest Raven's shine: Their sheen, amid the leafage shows, * Like women's fingers henna'd fine." And as saith another on the same theme, "Grape-bunches likest as they sway * A-stalk, my body frail and snell: Honey and water thus in jar, * When sourness past, make Hydromel." Then they entered the arbour of the garden and say there Rizwan the gate-keeper sitting, as he were Rizwan the Paradise-guardian, and on the door were written these lines, "Garth Heaven-watered wherein clusters waved * On boughs which full of sap to bend were fain: And, when the branches danced on Zephyr's palm, * The Pleiads shower'd as gifts[FN#381] fresh pearls for rain." And within the arbour were written these two couplets, "Come with us, friend, and enter thou * This garth that cleanses rust of grief: Over their skits the Zephyrs trip[FN#382] * And flowers in sleeve to laugh are lief."[FN#383] |
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