All of them agreed to this except Ja'afar, who said, "This is not my recking.

"Thou speakest to the point, nor is there a righter recking than this of thine, and I myself will carry him."

Hereat one and all replied, "Right is thy recking," and they looked at the bridegroom and were pleased with him.

"Do, O my brother, as thou desirest," the younger replied, "for right is thy recking and surely I will comply with thee in whatso thou sayest."

I meditated with downcast eyes, and decided to reply that men too had wondered what might lie in the moon, and had judged it dead, little recking of such magnificence as I had seen that day.