Chapter VI

Come, let us with the naked Night now rest And read in Allah's Book the sonnet best: The Pleiads--ah, the Moon from them departs,-- She draws her veil and hastens toward the west.

VII

The Pleiads follow; and our Ethiop Queen, Emerging from behind her starry screen, Will steep her tresses in the saffron dye Of dawn, and vanish in the morning sheen.