Ibla's

Tears filled Ibla's eyes when she beheld Antar and in triumph he led her back to the land of King Zoheir.

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For days he sang in measures sweet of Ibla's beauty and his arm burned to do deeds.

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Now it happened that a youth of wealth and lineage sought Ibla's hand in marriage.

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It chanced one morning that Antar entered Ibla's tent just as her mother was combing her hair, and the beauty of her form transfixed him.

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The weeds of the field became the fairest of flowers; the limpid pools mirrored Ibla's face in images beautiful and pure and the zephyrs whispered of love.

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Malik, Ibla's father, having now heard from some of the women all that had passed between his daughter and Antar, when the tribe marched against the Aamirites, ran at her with his drawn sword, and roared to his wife, Thou foul wretch! wert thou not ashamed for thy child, that she should appear openly in the presence of

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But Ibla's father, Malik, having also overheard this account, was convinced the man on foot must be the dusky Shiboob, and the knight Antar, so he said to his son, Should this be my nephew, on his way to release us from these dreadful tortures, never will I again harbour evil against him, never will I again listen to his foes.

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As to Ibla's father, he was rejoiced when he heard this, for he had resolved either to inform Rebia, or to escape by flight into the desert.

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Now Ibla's mother felt convinced that her daughter could be matched to no one but Antar, because he had ever protected her.

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Ibla's father, all his projects had failed; he was melancholy and distressed, and he felt assured his daughter must escape out of his hands, and that

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