The Scented Garden

The Results of Sin. 57 wineskin ; in three years thou wilt be as foul as thy Nubian. Come into my garden, boy ! with true love and pure, with open air and swift riding thou mayest regain thy beauty. Then wilt thou be grateful to El Qahar, and faithful, if thou canst be faithful. The camel that hath learnt to bite furiously8 — only Allah and the muzzle9 avail. 1. [Persian text] : Hakim — doctor, not to be confused with [Persian text] Hakim — official. 2. Wolf’s Tail — the false dawn or Zodiacal Light. 3. One M.S. omits the sentence, and finishes the previous couplet “ O flabby and withered lips ! ” ([Persian text]) lit. “ lips of one who fasts.” 4. Probably a pun [Persian text] to kiss [Persian text] rotten. 5. Reputed aphrodisiacs. In reality of little more use than the boasted South American Damiana. Chobchini (wood of China) is the “ ginseng ” of Sze- chuen and Corea. The modern biological methods of restoring sexual vigour are interesting. Brown- Sequard prepared a testicular infusion, but this was not found — everywhen, everywhere, and by all — a success. To-day they kill a goat, obtain the semen while the animal is still not quite dead, and preserve by a special process. Such a decoction, even when a year old, exhibits live and active spermatozoa when warmed by an experienced mi- croscopist on the stage of a good instrument. In- jected under the skin, it produces magnificent re- sults, both as a general tonic and a cure for impo- tence. Thus the goat, deposed from his Satanic glory, and proved (like a young virgin) useless in gonorrhoea, has at last found his causa finalis in