And for faring of you and your farness from home * My wounded lids are from tears ne'er free：
O thou leader of litters，turn back with my love * For my heart redoubleth its ardency：
Greet my love and say him that naught except * Those brown-red lips deals me remedy：
They bore him away and our union rent * And my vitals with Severance-shaft shot he：
My love，my lowe and my longing to him * Convey，for of parting no cure I see：
I swear an oath by your love that I * Will keep pact and covenant faithfully；To none I'll incline or forget your love * How shall love-sick lover forgetful be？
So with you be the peace and my greeting fair * In letters that perfume of musk-pod bear.'
Her sister Nasim admired his eloquence of tongue and the goodliness of his speech and the elegance of the verses he sang；and was moved to ruth for him.So she sealed the letter with virgin musk and incensed it with Nadd-scent and ambergris，after which she committed it to a certain of the merchants saying；'Deliver it not to any save to Zayn al-Mawasif or to her handmaid Hubub.'Now when the letter reached her sister，she knew it for Masrur's dictation and recognised himself in the grace of its expression.So she kissed it and laid it on her eyes，whilst the tears streamed from her lids and she gave not over weeping，till she fainted.As soon as she came to herself，she called for pencase and paper and wrote him the following answer；complaining the while of her desire and love-longing and ecstasy and what was hers to endure of pining for her lover and yearning to him and the passion she had conceived for him.--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.