Me he rejects and others 'joy his favours in my stead. This is
indeed the grace of God He gives to whom He will.
As soon as he had finished his recitation, he sang the following
verse in reply:
My salutation to the shape that through the wede doth show And to
the roses in the cheeks' full-flowering meads that blow!
When she heard this, her inclination for him redoubled and she
rose and lifted the curtain; and Alaeddin, seeing her, repeated
these verses:
She shineth forth, a moon, and bends, a willow-wand, And breathes
out ambergris and gazes, a gazelle.
Meseems as if grief loved my heart and when from her Estrangement
I abide, possession to it fell.
Thereupon she came forward, swinging her hips and swaying
gracefully from side to side with a shape the handiwork of Him
whose bounties are hidden, and each of them stole a glance at the
other, that cost them a thousand regrets. Then, for that the
arrows of her glances overcame his heart, he repeated the
following verses:
The moon of the heavens she spied and called to my thought The
nights of our loves in the meadows under her shine.
Yea, each of us saw a moon, but, sooth to say, It was her
eyes[FN#98] that I saw and she saw mine.
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