For gifts of self. You cannot understand

Love loves for nothing, brother. Those who serve

God the most purely cannot count that He

Will love them in return...."

The Wazir scowled.

But Dreamer-of-the-Age took him aside,

"I would unfold a story like a carpet.

The camel Tous told it to me last night:

"King Suleiman's wives were as jewels, his jewels as stones of the desert

In number. His concubines herded as desert-gazelles in their grace,