Basatin al-uns 69.107

69.107

The king asked: "What is it?" The minister said: "In the house of the king of Sarandīp there is a daughter whom
he acquired at the time of the subjection of the king of China, who in beauty is a plague to the soul and in delicacy an intoxication to the world.
Her night-colored, trailing tresses give aid in length to the night of Resurrection; her soul-reviving face in the perfection of
beauty exacts compensation from the full moon of the fourteenth night; the ruby rose gains color from envy of her spring-like cheek;
the hundred-petaled rose turns yellow like jasmine from shame before the freshness of her cheek, under her signet-ring.