... the past. Sleep on, sleep on, and continue thy old dream, so that there may be at least one last country where men lift up their hearts in prayer. May Allah preserve to the Sultan his unconquered territories, and his solitudes carpeted with flowers, his deserts of daffodils and irises, that he may exercise there the agility of his cavaliers and ... the muscles of his horses; that he may wage war there as once the paladins, and reap there his harvest of rebel heads. May Allah preserve to the Arab people its mystical dreams, its disdainful immobility and its grey rags. May he preserve to ...

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