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The Scented Garden
The Scented Garden (1910), PDF p. 98
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God’s constant affection.
2. Chob-chini, wood of China, a root highly re-
puted as an aphrodisiac. In China the jinseng of
Sze-chuan and Korea is most esteemed. That of
America is not so good, in the fatherland-dizzied
eyes of the Celestial. [See note to IXth Ghazal.
Ed.]
3. Suleiman — our King Solomon, as historical
as King Brahmadatta, who reigned 120,000 years
in Benares.
4. Isa — Jesus. Muslim hold that a phantom
was crucified in the place of Jesus. See Q’uran III.
5. Gold — noon, not sunrise, or sunset, whose
colours are rose and grey. A question of clinome-
ter.
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