{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/saab/saab20.htm","path":"isl/saab/saab20.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/saab/saab20.htm","text":"Salaman and Absal, by Jami, tr. Edward Fitzgerald, [1904]\nUnto the Soul that is confused by Love \n Comes Sorrow after Sorrow\u2014most of all\n To Love whose only Friendship is Reproof,\n And overmuch of Counsel\u2014whereby Love\n Grows stubborn, and increases the Disease.\n Love unreproved is a delicious food;\n Reproved, is Feeding on one's own Heart's Blood.\nSal\u00e1m\u00e1n heard; his Soul came to his Lips;\n Reproaches struck not Abs\u00e1l out of him,\n But drove Confusion in; bitter became\n The Drinking of the sweet Draught of Delight,\n And wan\u2019d the Splendour of his Moon of Beauty.\n His Breath was Indignation, and his Heart\n Bled from the Arrow, and his Anguish grew\n How bear it?\u2014Able to endure one wound,\n From Wound on Wound no remedy but Flight;\n Day after Day, Design upon Design,\n He turn\u2019d the Matter over in his Heart,\n And, after all, no Remedy but Flight.\n Resolv\u2019d on that, he victuall\u2019d and equipp\u2019d\n A Camel, and one Night he led it forth,\n And mounted\u2014he and Abs\u00e1l at his side,\n The fair Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n and Abs\u00e1l the Fair,\n Together on one Camel side by side,\n Twin Kernels in a single Almond packt.\n And True Love murmurs not, however small\n His Chamber\u2014nay, the straitest best of all.","title":"Salaman and Absal: Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n and Abs\u00e1l: XVIII","type":"page"}