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

Note 490
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)

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"Her stature tall—I hate a dumpy woman" (Don Juan).

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…e full, bright and debonnair: Eke did they well to laud the lovely lips * (Which e'en the sleep of me will never spare); A winning tongue, a stature tall and straight; [FN#490] * A seemly union of gifts rarest rare: But Beauty's acme in the hair one views it; * So hear my strain and with some few excuse it!"

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Note 490TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)

Note 490
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)