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Excerpt from Giafar Al Barmeki, Vol. 2 of 2: A Tale of the Court of Haroun Al Raschid
But were it not that time their troubler is, All that in this delightful garden grows Should happy he, and have immortal bliss For here all plenty and all pleasure flows, And sweet love gentle fits among them throws, Without fell rancour or fond jealousy. Suns. Time lingers in the cell of the captive, and hovers on leaden wing over the couch of the un fortunate, lengthening out with heedless cruelty his woes; but he hurries happy lovers with his swiftest flight. How widely seems nature to have erred in this from her usual benevolence to man kind! Strange and unhappy law of our exist ence! Time creeps with the wretched, and flies only with him who is happy, or him who sleeps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
