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ILLUSTRATIONS
JUSEF AND ASENATH
Asenath | Frontispiece |
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THE STORY OF THE BIRD FENG
The wonderful bird, like a fire of many colours come down from heaven, alighted before the princess, dropping at her feet the portrait | 1 |
YOUNG ROUSSELLE
What do you think of Young Rousselle? | 8 |
LAYLÁ AND MAJNÚN
In a high chamber of the palace — it was as wondrous as that of a Sultan | 16 |
If the desert were my home — then would I let the world go by | 18 |
She would sit for hours, with the bird perched on the back of her hand, listening to its soft intonation of that one word 'Majnún' | 22 |
THE NIGHTINGALE
Even the poor fisherman would pause in his work to listen | 32 |