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

Note 113
The Tale of the Prince and the Ogress.

From the Bul. Edit.

ITS PLACE IN THE BOOK

A youth slim waisted from whose locks and brow * The world in blackness and in light is set. Throughout Creation's round no fairer show * No rarer sight thine eye hath ever met: A nut brown mole sits throned upon a cheek * Of rosiest red beneath an eye of jet.[FN#113]

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