{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/saab/saab14.htm","path":"isl/saab/saab14.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/saab/saab14.htm","text":"Salaman and Absal, by Jami, tr. Edward Fitzgerald, [1904]\nNow when Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n's Heart turn\u2019d to Abs\u00e1l,\n Her Star was happy in the Heavens\u2014Old Love\n Put forth afresh\u2014Desire doubled his Bond:\n And of the running Time she watch\u2019d an Hour\n To creep into the Mansion of her Moon\n And satiate her soul upon his Lips.\n And the Hour came; she stole into his Chamber\n Ran up to him, Life's offer in her Hand\u2014\n And, falling like a Shadow at his Feet,\n She laid her Face beneath. Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n then\n With all the Courtesies of Princely Grace\n Put forth his Hand\u2014he rais\u2019d her in his Arms\n He held her trembling there\u2014and from that Fount\n Drew first Desire; then Deeper from her Lips,\n That, yielding, mutually drew from his\n A Wine that ever drawn from never fail\u2019d\u2014\nSo through the Day\u2014so through another still\u2014\n The Day became a Seventh\u2014the Seventh a Moon\u2014\n The Moon a Year\u2014while they rejoiced together,\n Thinking their Pleasure never was to end.\nBut rolling Heaven whisper\u2019d from his Ambush,\n \"So in my License is it not set down.\n \"Ah for the sweet Societies I make\n \"At Morning and before the Nightfall break;\n \"Ah for the Bliss that with the Setting Sun\n \"I mix, and, with his Rising, all is done!\"","title":"Salaman and Absal: Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n and Abs\u00e1l: XII","type":"page"}