O bounty of our Night in the valley of Rabwat where the gentle zephyr brings in
     her perfumes: 
It is a valley whose beauty is like that of the necklace:  trees and flowers
     encompass it. 
Its fields are carpeted with every variety of flowers and the birds fly around
     above them;
When the trees saw us seated beneath them they dropped upon us their fruits. 
We continued to exchange upon the borders of its gardens the flowing bowls of
     conversation and of poesy,
The valley was bountiful and her zephyrs brought to us what the flowers had sent
     to us.

So when the youth had finished his recitation he turned to the damsel and told her to sing:—­

I consume (with desire) when I hear from him a discourse whose sweetness is a
     melting speech: 
My heart palpitates when he sees it, it is not wonderful that the drunken one
     should dance: 
It has on this earth become my portion, but on this earth I have no chance to
     obtain it. 
O Lord! tell me the fault that I’ve committed, perhaps I may be able to correct
     it. 
I find in thee a heart harder than that of others and the hearts consume my
     being.

Now when she had finished, Ja’afar in his joy threw off the third dress.  The youth arose, kissed him on the head, and then took out for him another suit and put it upon him, for he was the most generous man of his time.  Then he enteretained Ja’afar with the news of the day and of the subjects and anecdotes of the great pieces of poetry and said to him, O my lord, load not thyself with cares.  The Rawi says that they continued living in the same way for forty days and on the forty-first Ja’afar said to the young man, Know, O my lord, that I have left my country neither for eating nor for drinking, but to divert myself and to see the world; but if God vouchsafe my return to my country to talk to my people, my neighbours and frieds, and they ask me where I have been and what I have seen, I will tell them of your generosity and of the great benefactions that you have heaped upon me in your country of Damascus.  I will say that I have sighted this and that, and thus I will entertain them with what I have espied in Damascus and of its order.  The young man replied, Thou sayest true:  and Ja’afar said, I desire to go out and visit the city, its bazars and its streets, to which the young man answered, With love and good will, to-morrow morning if it please Allah.  That night Ja’afar slept there and when God brought the day, he rose, went in to the young man, wished him good morning and said to him, O my lord, thy promise! to which he replied, With love and good will; and, ordering a white dress for him, he handed him a purse of three hundred dinars saying, Bestow this in charity and return quick after thou hast made thy visit, and lastly said to his servants, Bring to your lord a horse to ride.  But Ja’afar answered, I do not wish to have one, for a rider cannot