“O thou world-seducer and full moon bright, ✿ Stay thy speech and with boon of good news requite.
Love pledged me his word he would see thee and said, ✿ Hie thee home and order the house aright.
I awoke this morning in cark and care, ✿ In tears distraught and in dire despite;
For the wrongs and farness thou doom’st me dree ✿ Have forced my forces to fright-full flight.”
And when Ibn Ibrahim had ended his verse, Al-Hayfa joyed with increased and exceeding joy, and in her delight she answered him according to the rhyme and rhythm of his verse:—
“O who spreadest clouds,[[258]] Son of Ibrahim hight; ✿ By the Lord who ruleth in ’Arshhis height,
By Mohammed the bestest of men and by ✿ Th’ adorers of yore and the Tá-Há’s[[259]] might,
By Zemzem, Safá and wall Hatím[[260]] ✿ And Ka’abah and glories of Ka’abah’s site,
An this speech be sooth and my dearling come ✿ One thousand, two thousand dinars are thy right;
And I’ll give thee a courser, O Ibrahim’s son, ✿ Selle, stirrups and bridle with gold bedight;