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Quoth the young man, Indeed, when they put to sea with me, meseemed it was a dream and I knew not whither they were wending with me.
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Wherewith I raised my eyes to her and saw a rosy palm in a saffron sleeve, meseemed it was the full moon rising splendid in the cloudy
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I cast at him in my turn, a flame of fire, and smote him; but his shaft126 overcame my fire and he cried out at me so terrible a cry that meseemed the skies were fallen flat upon me, and the mountains trembled at his voice.
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Highest and thanked Him for His favours and exceeding mercies, and my heart revived in me after utter despair, till meseemed as if all
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As soon as he sighted me sitting at the house-door, he dismounted and coming up to me embraced me and saluted me; and meseemed I embraced the world and all therein.
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Now as my eyes fell on her, I was captivated by her and my vitals trembled and meseemed my heart flew forth of my breast; so I stood before her and I accosted her with this verse,
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When I saw this meseemed the house was all of gold and she said to me, ‘O my son, think not that this is of thy father’s good.
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And by Allah, meseemed the doors and the walls and all that was in the house answered and sang with him, for the beauty of his voice, so that I fancied my very limbs and clothes replied to him, and I abode amazed and unable to speak or move, for the trouble of my heart.
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Heaven,135 and they calling and signing, 136 ‘Come hither to us’; and meseemed there was below me a lake of water.
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And the said witch was clad full fair, and had laid by her sloth and stupid pride, as meseemed; and her limbs were grown rounder and sleeker, and her skin fairer, so that to them that knew her not she might well seem to be a goodly woman.
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