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

Note 151
The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad.

Anonymous

I have not attempted to order this marvellous confusion of metaphors so characteristic of The Nights and the exigencies of Al-Saj'a = rhymed prose.

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…d her face shamed the noon sun's radiancy; and she was even as a galaxy, or a dome with golden marquetry or a bride displayed in choicest finery or a noble maid of Araby.[FN#151] Right well of her sang the bard when he said:—

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The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad.