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should think fabulous, did not the experience of an husbandman 

 subscribe unto it that the palm trees are distinguished by sexes. 

 . . . While these love-stories were a-telling, I narrowly observed 

 how Leucippe was affected with them, who seemed to me to 

 heare them gladly; but let them say what they will Leucippe' s 

 countenance farre surpassed the rare and exquisite splendour 

 of the peacocke, nay the whole garden, for in her forehead were 

 daffadillies, in her cheekes roses, in her eyes violets, her locks 

 were more curled than the twining Ivie, and every part held 

 such correspondence with the Garden, that I may truly say 

 the best flowers were in her face. Not long after she departed, 

 being called to her Lute. — The Loves of Clitophori and Leucippe. 

 Englished fro?n the Greeke by Antho7iy Hodges, Oxford, 1638. 



BUT for him who feareth the majesty of his Lord shall be MOHAMMAD 

 A (-'^•D. 571-632). 



two gardens : - j/ j - 



With trees branched over : 



And therein two flowing wells : 



And therein of every fruit two kinds : 



Reclining on couches with linings of brocade and the fruit of the 



gardens to their hand : 

 Therein the shy-eyed maidens neither man nor Jinn hath touched 



before : 

 Like rubies and pearls : 

 Shall the reward of good be aught but good ? 

 And beside these shall be two other gardens : 

 Dark green in hue : 

 With gushing wells therein : 

 Therein fruit and palm and pomegranate : 

 Therein the best and comeliest maids : 

 Bright-eyed, kept in tents : 

 Man hath not touched them before, nor Jinn : 

 Reclining on green cushions and fine carpets : 

 Blessed be the name of thy Lord endued with majesty and honour. 

 ' The Speeches of Mohammad^' by Stanley Lane Poole. 



