away in slumber deep.
Soon has sleep
Colour'd thy fair cheeks again.
The wild bird's strain
Wakes thee from thy sweet repose.
In the fresh-blooming lap of nature
Thou hast gained new charms, fair creature,
Like the rose."

Then these fantastic forms vanished again, and she heard the spring
ripple, as before the rustling of the trees, and the echoes through the
vaults of the cavern. Soon a troop of girls dressed in white came into
the grotto, spread a carpet, and put upon it the most exquisite viands,
placed two cushions, one for her, and another for a second person, and
then bowed and said, "Your guardian angel is coming."

Gulhyndi had scarcely recovered from her astonishment, than, amidst a
train of singing and dancing creatures, a handsome youth entered,
dressed far more splendidly than the Caliph of Bagdad himself. A
mantle of the finest purple hung down from his shoulders, the rest of
his attire was of snow-white silk, and he had a crown of glittering
rubies on his head. He sat down, and asked Gulhyndi to do the same.
When the dancers and singers had retired, he said, "Gulhyndi is now in
the bliss of Paradise."

She was silent and trembled. The splendid king begun to take some of
the meats that were served up, and said, after a short silence,
"Gulhyndi is in the abode of enjoyment, let her enjoy without fear."

Upon this she rose and fell down at his feet, saying, "Powerful being,
I cannot enjoy any thing; my enjoyments were few when I was living,
they are still less now that a superior power has placed me in your
Eden. Give me back my Ali when he has ended his days; until then my
dreams within these sacred shades shall recall to me the past and
prepare me for a blissful eternity."

"Am I less ethereal than you?" said the young king, "and do I not
participate in these things? Take one of these fruits, its juice is
heavenly, its enjoyment spiritual."

Gulhyndi bowed low, but found it impossible to accept the fruit he
offered her; for, notwithstanding his beauty, there was something in
his features that inspired her with terror and warned her not to accept
it.

At this he smiled and rose, saying, as he retired: "This earthly nature
must be purified."

Gulhyndi was alone all day. She went out of the grotto to walk about
in the beautiful country around. Towards sunset she was tormented with
hunger and said to herself: "Can one really feel such an earthly
appetite in a state of