{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/saab/saab29.htm","path":"isl/saab/saab29.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/saab/saab29.htm","text":"Salaman and Absal, by Jami, tr. Edward Fitzgerald, [1904]\nThe Crown of Empire how supreme a Lot!\n The Throne of the Sultan how high!\u2014But not\n For All\u2014None but the Heaven-ward Foot may dare\n To mount\u2014The Head that touches Heaven to wear!\u2014\nWhen the Belov\u2019d of Royal Augury\n Was rescued from the Bondage of Abs\u00e1l,\n Then he arose, and shaking off the Dust\nOf that lost Travel, girded up his Heart,\n And look\u2019d with undefil\u00e9d Robe to Heaven.\n Then was His Head worthy to wear the Crown,\n His Foot to mount the Throne. And then The Shah\n Summon\u2019d the Chiefs of Cities and of States,\n Summon\u2019d the Absolute Ones who wore the Ring,\n And such a Banquet order\u2019d as is not\n For Sovereign Assemblement the like\n In the Folding of the Records of the World.\n No arm\u00e9d Host, nor Captain of a Host,\n From all the Quarters of the World, but there;\n Of whom not one but to Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n did\n Obeisance, and lifted up his Neck\n To yoke it under his Supremacy.\n Then The Shah crown\u2019d him with the Golden Crown,\n And set the Golden Throne beneath his Feet,\n And over all the Heads of the Assembly,\n And in the Ears of all of them, his Jewels\n With the Diamond of Wisdom cut and said:\u2014","title":"Salaman and Absal: Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n and Abs\u00e1l: XXVII","type":"page"}