El-leyl. El-leyl, etc.”

A lover says to the dove, “Lend me your wings for a day.”

The dove replied, “Thy affair is vain:” I said, “Some other day:

That I may soar through the sky, and see the face of the beloved:

I shall obtain love enough for a year, and will return, O dove, in a day.”

The night! The night! etc.

THE CALL TO PRAYER.

The call to prayer, repeated from the mád’nehs (or menarets) of the mosques, I have already mentioned.[[475]] I have often heard this call, in Cairo, chanted in the following manner; and in a style more or less similar, it is chanted by most of the muëddins of this city.