My Winter on the Nile / Eighteenth Edition - Charles Dudley Warner

And her eyelids were the cause of my intoxication.

I extended my hand to take the cup;

And was intoxicated by her eyes.

O thou in the rose-colored dress!

Beloved of my heart! remain with me.”

Or he pipes to the “dark-complexioned, and with two white roses”:—

“O damsel! thy silk shirt is worn out, and thine arms have become visible,

And I fear for thee, on account of the blackness of thine eyes.

I desire to intoxicate myself, and kiss thy cheeks,