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I was circuiting the Ka'abah one dark night, when I heard a plaintive voice, speaking from a contrite heart and saying, 'O Bountiful One, Thy past boon!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir