You rivaled the full moon's light in the ring of company,

you who put on the blue jubbah.

You are the moon and the full moon, O dandy —

but whence would the full moon have such slender grace?

You are the moon and the full moon, O dandy,

with the fortunate ascendant and the flood of light.

Your mansion in my heart is thriving still:

you pitched your tent in its east

until its inmost corner was filled,

and you the tent concealed within it —

am I to be left drowning, drowned like this?

Am I to be left screened away from my eyes,

with the veils standing between you and me?

By God, do not deny the faith I keep:

the creed of love is upon you — my eyes gaze toward you.

And what would it matter, O Bey,

were you to pass our way in passing?

Were you to pass our way but once,

and I behold the blaze on the morning of that brow —

sweet, though on the letters of weeping bitter —

glory be to Him who fashioned you,

O full moon among the spheres!

Hail to him who named you:

your name rose in the town like a gasp.

Your name is Hasan, and you are beauty itself, O master,

and all, for your sake, are servants and slaves.

Sheikh Nasif al-Yazigi

I surrendered my soul to you from hand to hand.

He said: write out the description.

I made haste, light and nimble,

to write upon the lip —

for I had reckoned your lip a sheet of paper.

And I had reckoned your cheek a bed of stock-flowers:

I rose to pluck it while the watchman was away.

He laughed and said to me: O deluded man,

the plucking of cheeks is never done

except by gazing and by scent;

this is the dye of blood —

and if you doubt it, flick it a flick.

And if you doubt, then hear me out,

and know, and tell your friend of me:

the snare of the spheres is written in my art.

It is my eyes' habit to play the coquette,

casting a blaze into the heart;

and I am the whiteness of snow,

and snow works a burning in the breast.

And snow is reckoned of my body,

and the sun my face — how should it not melt?

We said: gather the lovers with their hearts.

He said: O sage of the Greeks,

you are the prophet foretold —

when shall the Resurrection rise?

I said: the Resurrection is the hour of parting.

"Marqad al-'Anza"

Louis André Bakouri

One of the most important features distinguishing the London fashion collections is that they arouse the admiration of foreign buyers. An American company has bought the "Digby Morton" collection, which he recently presented to certain fashion houses and firms.

Representatives of the fashion houses of the United States, South America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, South Africa, India, and the European countries visit the fashion houses of London at every hour of the day, among them the houses of "Hartnell," "Molyneux," "Bianca Mosca," "Jacqmar," "Victor Stiebel," "Rahvis," and "Angèle Delanghe."

Some of the leading Parisian fashion designers, men and women, came to London to see these new collections, and they observed that the new fashions interest them to a large degree, particularly in the designing of the fashions of the future, and that the fashion houses of Paris must keep in touch with their counterparts in London.

London has earned its standing thanks to the sound taste and balance it observes in designing its fashions, and to the quality of the fabric from which the clothes are made, such as synthetic fabric, nylon fabric, and fabric made from seaweed.