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 "Thine own was given to me Long since thou knowest."

"I tell thee I want it not!"

"Well, as thou willst, Aziz, farewell."

"Farewell."

"Ah, thou art gone indeed. Mir Khan, Mir Khan, Return to me, return! I am lost! I am dead! Is that the sound of his returning feet? Nay, it is but a stone, his horse's hoof Sets leaping down the hillside. Oh, Mir Khan, Thou art gone from me, and my life is gone with thee!

"Ay, thou hast gone, and left me to my fate, Knowing I knew thou knewest. For thou didst know. Last midnight, when Sher Afzul came to me And told me the Shah-Zada had decreed That thou shouldst die, for that light love of thine Amongst his women, also he made known 104