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Has sleep fled thee through musing on the fair?—

She has bestowed upon thee instead crazing meditation.

O Night! thou hast been long to the sick one;

He suffers through desire and loss of patience.

Thou hast delivered the lover to burning flames:

He is consumed as living coals consume.

The moon bears witness that I love—

That love for one fair as herself has subdued me.

I thought not of suffering on her account,

Nor recked I of it ere it smote me.

ʾAbd-Allâh continues: Then the voice broke, and I knew not whence it had come to me. So I remained motionless, when, lo! verily the weeping and