The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 · Richard Francis Burton translation

Note 482
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)

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In Night lxxv. these lines will occur with variants.

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"Long have I wept o'er severance ban and bane, * Long from mine eyelids tear-rills rail and rain: And vowed I if Time re-union bring * My tongue from name of "Severance" I'll restrain: Joy hath o'ercome me to this stress that I * From joy's revulsion to shed tears am fain: Ye are so trained to tears, O eyne of me! * You weep with pleasure as you weep with pain." [FN#482]

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Note 482TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)

Note 482
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)