{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/saab/saab16.htm","path":"isl/saab/saab16.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/saab/saab16.htm","text":"Salaman and Absal, by Jami, tr. Edward Fitzgerald, [1904]\nFirst spoke The Shah;\u2014\"Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n, Oh my Soul,\n \"Oh Taper of the Banquet of my House,\n \"Light of the Eyes of my Prosperity,\n \"And making bloom the Court of Hope with Rose;\n \"Years Rose-bud-like my own Blood I devour\u2019d\n \"Till in my hand I carried thee, my Rose;\n \"Oh do not tear my Garment from my Hand,\n \"Nor wound thy Father with a Dagger Thorn.\n \"Years for thy sake the Crown has worn my Brow,\n \"And Years my Foot been growing to the Throne\n\"Only for Thee\u2014Oh spurn them not with Thine;\n \"Oh turn thy Face from Dalliance unwise,\n \"Lay not thy Heart's hand on a Minion!\n \"For what thy Proper Pastime? Is it not\n \"To mount and manage Rakhsh along the Field;\n \"Not, with no stouter weapon than a Love-lock,\n \"Idly reclining on a Silver Breast.\n \"Go, fly thine Arrow at the Antelope\n \"And Lion\u2014let not me my Lion see\n \"Slain by the Arrow eyes of a Ghazal.\n \"Go, flash thy Steel among the Ranks of Men,\n \"And smite the Warriors\u2019 Necks; not, flying them,\n \"Lay down thine own beneath a Woman's Foot.\n \"Leave off such doing in the Name of God,\n \"Nor bring thy Father weeping to the Ground;\n \"Years have I held myself aloft, and all\n \"For Thee\u2014Oh Shame if thou prepare my Fall!\"","title":"Salaman and Absal: Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n and Abs\u00e1l: XIV","type":"page"}