{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/saab/saab11.htm","path":"isl/saab/saab11.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/saab/saab11.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Islam\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n \nSalaman and Absal, by Jami, tr. Edward Fitzgerald, [1904]\n \n p. 20\n IX.\n \n Suddenly that Sweet Minister of mine\n Rebuked me angrily; \"What Folly, J\u00e1mi,\n \"Wearing that indefatigable Pen\n \"In celebration of an Alien Shah\n \"Whose Throne, not grounded in the Eternal World,\n \"Yesterday was, To-day is not!\" I answer\u2019d;\n Oh Fount of Light!\u2014under an Alien Name\n \"1 shadow One upon whose Head the Crown\n \"Both Was and Is To-day; to whose Firm\u00e1n\n \"The Seven Kingdoms of the World are subject,\n \"And the Seas Seven but droppings of his Largess.\n \"Good luck to him who under other Name\n \"Taught us to veil the Praises of a Power\n \"To which the Initiate scarce find open Door.\"\n \n Sat a Lover solitary\n Self-discoursing in a Corner,\n Passionate and ever-changing\n Invocation pouring out;\n Sometimes Sun and Moon; and sometimes\n Under Hyacinth half-hidden\n Roses; or the lofty Cypress,\n And the little Weed below.\n Nightingaling thus a Noodle\n Heard him, and, completely puzzled,\n \"What!\" quoth he, \"And you, a Lover,\n \"Raving not about your Mistress,\n \"But about the Moon and Roses!\"\n Answer\u2019d he; \"Oh thou that aimest\n \n \n \n \nClick to enlarge\n \n p. 21\n \n \"Wide of Love, and Lover's Language\n \"Wholly misinterpreting;\n \"Sun and Moon are but my Lady's\n \"Self, as any Lover knows;\n \"Hyacinth I said, and meant her\n a Hair\u2014her Cheek was in the Rose\u2014\n \"And I myself the wretched Weed\n \"That in her Cypress Shadow grows.\"\n \n \n \n Next: X","title":"Salaman and Absal: Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n and Abs\u00e1l: IX","type":"page"}