{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/saab/saab23.htm","path":"isl/saab/saab23.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/saab/saab23.htm","text":"Salaman and Absal, by Jami, tr. Edward Fitzgerald, [1904]\nBut as the days went on, and still The Shah\n Beheld Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n how sunk in Abs\u00e1l,\n And yet no Hand of better Effort lifted;\n But still the Crown that shall adorn his Head,\n And still the Throne that waited for his Foot,\n Trampled from Memory by a Base Desire,\n Of which the Soul was still unsatisfied\u2014\n Then from the Sorrow of The Shah fell Fire;\n To Gracelessness Ungracious he became,\n And, quite to shatter his rebellious Lust,\n Upon Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n all his Will discharged.\n And Lo! Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n to his Mistress turn\u2019d,\n But could not reach her\u2014look\u2019d and look\u2019d again,\n And palpitated tow'rd her\u2014but in Vain!\nOh Misery! what to the Bankrupt worse\n Than Gold he cannot reach! To one Athirst\n Than Fountain to the Eye and Lip forbid!\u2014\n Or than Heaven opened to the Eyes in Hell!\u2014\n Yet, when Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n's Anguish was extreme,\n The Door of Mercy open\u2019d in his Face;\n He saw and knew his Father's Hand outstretcht\n To lift him from Perdition\u2014timidly,\n Timidly tow'rd his Father's Face his own\n He lifted, Pardon-pleading, Crime-contest,\n As the stray Bird one day will find her Nest.\n\"Lo the disregarded Darnel\n \"With itself adorns the Wheat-field,\n \"And for all the Early Season\n \"Satisfies the Farmer's Eye;\n \"But come once the Hour of Harvest,\n \"And another Grain shall answer,\n \"'Darnel and no Wheat, am I.'\"","title":"Salaman and Absal: Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n and Abs\u00e1l: XXI","type":"page"}