7. Oh! Nevai, from this passion you will never get freed. Come, therefore, before the meeting. Patience and perseverance let us seek.
Nevai.
1. Absent from the loved one, the heart is like a land without a king. A land without a king is like a body without a soul.
2. Oh! Mussulman, what service is a body without a soul! It is like black earth, which has no sweet smelling roses.
3. Black earth, that has no sweet smelling roses, is like a dark night, that has no bright moonbeams.
4. A dark night, that has no bright moon, is like darkness without a life-source.
5. A darkness, that has no life-source, is like a hell, which has no paradise-plains.
6. Oh! Nevai, as the loved give so much pain, it is certain that absence has its pangs, and the return no aid.
His Tchihardivan is beautiful, in which he celebrates the various ages of men, as also his adaptation of the well-known romances, Ferhad and Shirin, Medjnun and Leila, Yusuf and Zuleikha, &c. Also his versification of some stories out of the 1,001 Nights, among which Prince Seif-ul-Muluk is the most successful. The following will serve as a specimen of the latter.
How Seif-ul-Muluk sets out from the town of Tchin, and journeys to the sea.