For I have beheld her, the Princess—

Firelight and starlight her eyes!

Pauper I am—I would woo her.

And ... let me drink wine to begin,

Though the Koran expressly forbids it.”

I am your slave,” said the Jinn.

“Plan me a dome,” said Aladdin,

“That is drawn like the dawn of the moon,

When the sphere seems to rest on the mountains

Half-hidden, yet full-risen soon.