They left me，after girthing on their selles of corduwayne
To fight the very pangs of death while spanned they sandy plain：
Mysterious through the nightly gloom there came the moan of dove；A ring dove，and replied I，'Cease thy plaint，how durst complain？'
If，by my life，her heart，like mine，were full of pain and pine She had not decks her neck with ring nor sole with ruddy stain.[75]
Fled is mine own familiar friend，bequeathing me a store
Of parting pang and absence ache to suffer evermore.'
Then she abstained from food and drink and gave herself up to excessive tear shedding and lamentation.Her grief became public property far and wide and all the people of the town and country side wept with her and cried，'Where is thine eye，O Zau al Makan？'And they bewailed the rigours of Time，saying，'Would Heaven we knew what hath befallen Kanmakan that he fled his native town，and chased himself from the place where his father used to fill all in hungry case and do justice and grace？'And his mother redoubled her weeping and wailing till the news of Kanmakan's departure came to King Sasan.And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.