Note 263 — ALI SHAR[254] AND ZUMURRUD.
Richard Francis Burton translation
“Moon-faced” now sounds sufficiently absurd to us, but it was not always so. Solomon (Cant. vi. 10) does not disdain the image “fair as the moon, clear as the sun;” and those who have seen a moon in the sky of Arabia will thoroughly appreciate it. We find it amongst the Hindus, the Persians, the Afghans, the Turks and all the nations of Europe. We have, finally, the grand example of Spenser:—
Her spacious forehead, like the clearest moon, etc.