{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/saab/saab12.htm","path":"isl/saab/saab12.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/saab/saab12.htm","text":"Salaman and Absal, by Jami, tr. Edward Fitzgerald, [1904]\nNow was Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n in his Prime of Growth,\n His Cypress Stature risen to high Top,\n And the new-blooming Garden of his Beauty\n Began to bear; and Abs\u00e1l long\u2019d to gather;\n But the Fruit grew upon too high a Bough,\n To which the Noose of her Desire was short.\n She too rejoiced in Beauty of her own\n No whit behind Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n, whom she now\n Began enticing with her Sorcery.\n Now from her Hair would twine a musky Chain,\n To bind his Heart\u2014now twist it into Curls\n Nestling innumerable Temptations;\n Doubled the Darkness of her Eyes with Surma\n To make him lose his way, and over them\n Adorn\u2019d the Bows that were to shoot him then;\n Now to the Rose-leaf of her Cheek would add\n Fresh Rose, and then a Grain of Musk lay there,\n The Bird of the Belov\u00e9d Heart to snare.\nNow with a Laugh would break the Ruby Seal\n That lockt up Pearl; or busied in the Room\n Would smite her Hand perhaps\u2014on that pretence\n To lift and show the Silver in her Sleeve;\n Or hastily rising clash her Golden Anclets\n To draw the Crown\u00e9d Head under her Feet.\n Thus by innumerable Bridal wiles\n She went about soliciting his Eyes,\n Which she would scarce let lose her for a Moment;\n For well she knew that mainly by The Eye\n Love makes his Sign, and by no other Road\n Enters and takes possession of the Heart.","title":"Salaman and Absal: Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n and Abs\u00e1l: X","type":"page"}