- Author: Sadeq Hedayat
- Translator: D. B. Costello
- Publication Date: 1937 (Persian); 1958 (English)
- ISBN: 9780802144287
The night was departing on tip-toe. One felt that it had shed sufficient of its weariness to enable it to go its way. The ear detected faint, far-off sounds such as the sprouting grass might have made, or some migratory bird as it dreamed upon the wing. The pale stars were disappearing behind banks of cloud. I felt the gentle breath of the morning on my face and at the same moment a cock crowed somewhere in the distance.
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