On the mountains large flowers filled with smoking perfumes rock like eternal censers; in the citron trees, which are higher than cedars, milk-coloured serpents cause the fruit to fall upon the turf with the diamonds in their jaws; the air is so mild that it keeps you from dying.

Oh! I shall find it, you will see.

We shall live in crystal grottoes cut out at the foot of the hills.

No one dwells in it yet, or I shall become the king of the country." He brushed the dust off her cothurni; he wanted her to put a quarter of a pomegranate between her lips; he heaped up garments behind her head to make a cushion for her.

He sought for means to serve her, and to humble himself, and he even spread the zaimph over her feet as if it were a mere rug.
"Have you still," he said, "those little gazelle's horns on which your necklaces hang?
You will give them to me! I love them!" For he spoke as if the war were finished, and joyful laughs broke from him.