A pleasant wine both when fresh and when mellow.

Verse.

“Were I glass instead of body,

I’d reveal thee to thyself without thy unveiling.

Two lips have I; one for drinking,

And one to apologize for drunkenness.”

On Monday, the 14th, Ḥusainī s. Sult̤ān Qiwām produced this quatrain:

Quatrain.

“A speck of dust sprinkled on thee from thy skirt

Becomes Solomon’s collyrium; from the moisture of thy face[69]