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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6) Part 1

Note 27 — THE TALE OF ZAYN AL-ASNAM. (ARABIC.)

Richard Francis Burton translation

Arab. “Zahab-ramlí,” explained in “Alaeddin.” So Al-Mutanabbi sang:—

“I become not of them because homed in their ground: ✿ Sandy earth is the gangue wherein gold is found.”

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