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108 Oh, show favour to one, who’s distracted for love, And his life from the deaths of thy cruelty free! So may Allah increase thee in beauty and joy And grant that all creatures thy ransom may be! At the last, neath my banner all lovers shall rise And all fair ones to gather neath thine shall agree.

Then he wept and recited these also:

Then he wept sore and recited the following:

And also these:

Presently Saïd grew weary of awaiting him and going forth in quest of him, found him walking in the garden, in a state of distraction, reciting the following verses: