...Great Heaven ! perish every thought Of wrath against so loved a maid ; Nay, if her sword my life blood sought I'd kiss the blade. The pain she giveth I prefer...on; As though I might its fury bind Like Solomon. LETTER FROM CAIRO. MY DEAR At Cairo I realized what I had failed to do thoroughly at Alexandria, that...

...having apostrophized the zephyr, and besought it to carry a message to his beloved, he says, — " Each day I send my envoys there ; But bootless do...: As though I might its fury bind, Like Solomon." These constant allusions to the history and traditions of the Arabs make the Divan of El Behii Zoheir...

...Thus, having apostrophized the Zephyr, and besought it to carry a message to his beloved, he says : Each day I send my envoys there, But bootless do they...aye return, Each day brings forth some gloomier care Fur me to learn. And now I bid the very wind To speed my loving message on, As though I might its fury...

...poets. Thus, apostrophizing the Zephyr, and beseeching it to carry a message to his beloved, he says : And now I bid the very wind To speed my loving message...on, As though I might its fury bind, Like Solomon. These constant allusions to the history and traditions of the Arabs, make the Divan of El Beha Zoheir...

...— to which the poet Baha-ed-Din Zuhayr, of Egypt, thus alludes in an address to his lady-love : " And now I bid the very wind To speed my loving message...on, As though I might its fury bind, Like Solomon. " The wind is a common messenger of love in the amatory poetry of the East ; — thus a pre-Islamite...

...poets. Thus, apostrophizing the Zephyr, and beseeching it to carry a message to his beloved, he says : And now I bid the very wind To speed my loving message...on, As though I might its fury bind, Like Solomon. These constant allusions to the history and traditions of the Arabs, make the Divan of El Behd Zoheir...