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Then she went to the second door and wrote thereon the following verses:

Then she went to the third door and wept sore and wrote thereon these verses:

Harkye, Mesrour, an if thou come to this her dwelling, see Thou read upon the doors the lines that she hath writ for thee. How oft thou’st tasted of the sweet and bitter of the nights! Forget thou not the pact of love, if thou a true man be. By Allah, do not thou forget her neighbourhood, Mesrour; For in thyself her solace all and gladness leaveth she! Weep for the days of love-delight and all their sweets and all The goodly nights that with their shade encurtained thee and me; And to the farthest of the lands, for my sake, journey thou; Search all its deserts after us and plunge into its sea.