"I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars,..." (T. E Lawrence - "Lawrence of Arabia")

To S.A.
"I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and
                wrote my will across the sky in stars
To earn you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house,
                that your eyes might be shining for me
When we came.

Death seemed my servant on the road, till we were near
                and saw you waiting:
When you smiled, and in sorrowful envy he outran me
                and took you apart:
Into his quietness.

SOURCE: From the dedication of T. E Lawrence's ("Lawrence of Arabia") masterful work "Seven Pillars of Wisdom." He tells the story of his role in the Arab revolt against the Turks, almost a minor diversion for the British immersed in WWI, but profoundly meaningful for the Arabs.

Many questions have arisen about the identity of S.A. The current belief is that S.A. was "Selim Ahmed," nicknamed "Dahoum" ("Dark One"), a 14-year-old Arab with whom Lawrence is known to have been close and whom Lawrence had met while working at a prewar archaeological dig at Carchemish. The two parted in 1914, never to see each other again as Dahoum died of typhus in 1918.