401

THE SONG OF NOUZONIHAR. *

O HUSH thy complaints, my dear youth!
Gulchenrouz, my darling, believe

I love thee, I speak but the truth ;

And when was I known to deceive?

I will suffer no Gouls to be near
The boy whom I love and protect;
Then, my Meignoun, away with all fear,
Nor the faith of your Leilah suspect.+

The bulbul may woo the sweet rose,
But thy cheek is the rose that I love:
Let us search where the Peris repose;

As through jessamine bowers we rove.

* See The Caliph Vathek."

† Ce mot de Meignoun est devenu aussi le nom d'un fameux personnage que les Orientaux prennent pour le modèle d'un parfait amant. Sa maîtresse qui se nommait Leilah, est regardée aussi par les mêmes Orientaux comme la plus belle et la plus chaste de toutes celles de son sexe.-Bibliothèque Orientale d'Herbelot, ART. MEIGNOUN.

D D

402

THE SONG OF NOUZONIHAR.

The sapphire is bright, but more blue

Are thine eyes, and more lovely to me Than the sapphire's deep light, or the hue Of the violet sought by the bee.

O light as the antelope's leaps

Are thy feet in the dance, and the glow
Of thy breast is the rose-hue that sleeps
At sunset on vases of snow.

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