This is the love-story told at the camp fire and among the tents in the desert. Both girl and boy, Leyli and Majnun, are children of two little wandering tribes. Syd Omri, chief of his clan, has a son Kais. Kais and Leyli, the daughter of another petty chief, are children together. Side by side they sat in the schools, and the lesson they learnt is read in each other's eyes. But the poet hurries us on to his tragedy. He spares us only a little of their early spring and the dreams and ideals of childhood, and passes on to the long, pitiless summer of separation and fruitless desire. Leyli is taken away with the rest of her tribe from the city of Bagdad into the distant hills, and Kais being left alone, deprived of his Leyli, is no longer Kais, but Majnun - mad of love. Like all the inspired madmen of old, he seeks the wilderness. Like them, he has dominion over wild beasts; the lion is his friend, and the jackal his servant. Syd Omri sets forth to find the father of Leyli, and implores her hand for his son. But no one wants a madman for a son-in-law. In the East, where madness and inspiration go hand in hand, the madman is always a man of God, a man of awe, one to propitiate, but never to love, pity, and heal. So Ibn Salam rides by with his money bags and his sound mind in his sound body, and Leyli, like a well-bred young lady, is passed to the wealthy bidder, and Kais remains immortally Majnun.
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