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

Note 485
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)

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Arab. "Habb;" alluding to the black drop in the human heart which the Archangel Gabriel removed from Mohammed by opening his breast.

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"When I think of my love and our parting-smart, * My groans go forth and my tears upstart: He's a mole that reminds me in colour and charms * O' the black o' the eye and the grain [FN#485] of the heart."

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Note 485TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)

Note 485
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)