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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 233 — TALE OF HARUN AL-RASHID AND ABDULLAH BIN NAFI’.[131]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

The lily in Heb., derived by some from its six (shash) leaves, and by others from its vivid cheerful brightness. “His lips are lilies” (Cant. v. 13), not in colour, but in odoriferous sweetness.

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