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 the cave, with my face to the eaſt,  myſelf to the ſecret influences  the Prophet, and expecting illumination from above One morning after  nocturnal vigil, juſt as I perceived the  glow at the approach of the ſun,  power of ſleep became irreſiſtable,  I ſunk under it. I imagined myſelf ſitting at the entrance of my cell;  the dawn increaſed, and that as I  earneſtly for the firſt beam of day,  dark ſpot appeared to intercept it. I that it was in motion; it increaſed in ſize as it drew near, and at  I diſcovered it to be an eagle I  kept my eye fixed ſtedfaſtly upon it, and ſaw it alight at a ſmall diſtance, where I now diſcried a fox, whoſe two -legs appeared to be broken. Before this fox the eagle laid part of a kid, which it had brought in its talons and diſappeared. When I awaked, I laid my fore-head upon the ground, and bleſſed the Prophet for the inſtruction of the morning, I reviewed my dream, and ſaid thus to myſelf, 'Coſrou thou haſt done well to renounce the tumult, and buſineſs and the vanities of life;