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122 out, running, to the shore of the sea, where he fixed his eyes on the place of the ship that had carried her off, whilst sighs burst from his breast and he recited the following verses:

And he wept and wailed and bemoaned himself, crying out and saying, ‘O Meryem! O Meryem! Was it but in sleep I saw thee or in the illusions of dreams?’ And by reason of that which waxed on him of regrets, he recited these verses:

As he was in this case, weeping and crying out, ‘O Meryem!’ an old man landed from a vessel and coming up to him, saw him weeping and heard him recite these verses: