So both entered the boat and，as the man rowed off with them and they left the garden behind them，Ali bin Bakkar looked back towards the Caliph's palace and the pavilion and the grounds；and bade them farewell with these two couplets，'I offered this weak hand as last farewell，While to heartburning fire that hand is guided：
O let not this end union！ Let not this
Be last provision for long road provided！'
Thereupon the damsel said to the boatman，'Make haste with them both.'So he plied his oars deftly （the slavegirl being still with them）；And Shahrazad perceived the dawning day and ceased saying her permitted say.