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Excerpt from Solwan, Vol. 2 of 2: Or, Waters of Comfort
Ain Ahlih hastened to the village, in which Sitt-ad-dahab dwelt, made diligent search for her house, until he discovered it, and went the rounds so perseveringly, that he at length Obtained a sight of the beauty, and was struck with admira tion and amazement, although she was not, in reality, more beautiful than Sitt-an-nar.
But it is said: Of a truth, one of the most irre sistible impulses of the soul is to seek after a change of condition. It is introduced into the world of being, thanks to the chain which eu grafts it upon the body, and passes into the world of corruption3 by a second change which separates it from the body. Now a being, which begins its career with one change, and closes it with another, must attain the condition most suitable to it in the intermediate state, between the starting point and the goal.
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