Passion hath made me restless and yearning consumes my soul And tears discover my secretthat else concealed had lain.
I know of no way to ease me of sickness and care and woe；Nor can my weak endeavour reknit Love's severed skein.
My heart is a raging furnacebecause of the heat whereof My entrails are racked with anguishthat nothing can assain.
O thouthat thinkest to blame me for what is fallen on me，EnoughI suffer with patience whatever the Fates ordain.
I swear I shall ne'er find comfort nor be consoled for them，The oath of the children of passionwhose oaths are never in vain！
Bear tidingsO nightto my dear ones and greet them and witness bear That thou knowest in thee I sleep notbut ever to wake am fain.
Meanwhilethe hermit said to Uns el Wujoud'Go down into the valley and fetch me palm-fibre.'So he went and returned with the palm-fibrewhich the hermit took and twisting into ropes，made therewith a netsuch as is used for carrying straw；after which he said to the youth'O Uns el Wujoudin the heart of the valley grows a gourdwhich springs up and dries upon its roots. Go thither and fill this net therewith；then tie it together and casting it into the waterembark thereon and make for the midst of the seaso haply thou shalt come to thy desire；for hewho adventureth not himselfshall not attain that he seeketh.'I hear and obey，'answered Uns el Wujoud and bidding the hermit farewell after he had prayed for himbetook himself to the hollow of the valleywhere he did as he had counselled him and launched out upon the watersupported by the net.
Then there arose a windwhich drove him out to seatill he was lost to the hermit's view；and he ceased not to fare on over the abysses of the oceanone billow tossing him up on the crest of the wave and another bearing him down into the trough of the seaand he beholding the while the terrors and wonders of the deepfor the space of three daysat the end of which time Fate cast him upon the Mount of the Bereft Motherwhere he landedweak and giddy as a fledgling birdfor hunger and thirst；butfinding there streams running and birds warbling on the branches and fruit-laden treesgrowing in clusters and singlyhe ate of the fruits and drank of the streams. Then he walked on till he saw some white thing alar offand making for itfound that it was a strongly-fortified castle. So he went up to the gate and finding it lockedsat down by it.