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111 “By Allah, O Shefikeh, one look at him were liefer to me than all that my hand possesseth! Would I knew what I shall do, whenas Baghdad is empty of him and I hear no tidings of him!” Then she wept and calling for inkhorn and paper and pen of brass, wrote the following verses:

Then she folded the letter and giving it to her