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Many a lover his beloved tells
With his eyes’ language what is in his heart.
“I know what has befallen,” seems to say,
And with a glance he does his thoughts impart.
How lovely are the glances of the eyes,
How graceful are the eyes with passion fraught.
One with his looks a lover’s message writes,
Another with his eyes reads what his lover wrote.
- The Second Dervish’s Tale

Absolutely fantastic. Burton's footnotes are a treasure in and of themselves. I'll probably put this down shortly if the scene setting loses its magic a bit until I feel encouraged to return to Arabia.

Good lord this book is long. Trying to finish before August so I don’t have a YEAR on my reading log for a book. 200 pages of actual story left. The last 200ish pages are notes and those don’t count as reading so I’m further through the book (at least that’s what I’m telling myself).