{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/saab/saab25.htm","path":"isl/saab/saab25.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/saab/saab25.htm","text":"Salaman and Absal, by Jami, tr. Edward Fitzgerald, [1904]\nAh the poor Lover!\u2014In the changing Hands\n Of Day and Night no wretcheder than He!\n No Arrow from the Bow of Evil Fate\n But reaches him\u2014one Dagger at his Throat,\n Another comes to wound him from behind.\n Wounded by Love\u2014then wounded by Reproof\n Of Loving\u2014and, scarce stauncht the Blood of Shame\n By flying from his Love\u2014then, worst of all,\n Love's back-blow of Revenge for having fled!\nSal\u00e1m\u00e1n heard\u2014he rent the Robe of Peace\n He came to loathe his Life, and long for Death,\n(For better Death itself than Life in Death)\n He turn\u2019d his face with Abs\u00e1l to the Desert\u2014\n Enter\u2019d the deadly Plain; Branch upon Branch\n Cut down, and gather\u2019d in a lofty Pile,\n And fired. They look\u2019d upon the Flames, those Two\n They look\u2019d, and they rejoiced; and hand in hand\n They sprang into the Fire. The Shah who saw,\n In secret all had order\u2019d; and the Flame,\n Directed by his Self-fulfilling Will,\n Devouring utterly Abs\u00e1l, pass\u2019d by\n Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n harmless\u2014the pure Gold return\u2019d\n Entire, but all the baser Metal burn\u2019d.","title":"Salaman and Absal: Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n and Abs\u00e1l: XXIII","type":"page"}