15. Break with the world, its vanities, its love;
Leave ignorance, confess, and let thy goal be heaven!
The following is an attempt to render the pretty tune of a more worldly Laila and Majnûn song, which reminds one of the “Yodeln” of the Tyrolese. It was sung to me by Taighûn Shah, the poet-minstrel of the Raja, to the accompaniment of a kind of guitar. The Chitráli language, it will be perceived, is musical.
Shin·djùr is-prûo sar ma bul-bul hut bó·wor Tsá·ren-tu ru-pé
dūr thu mor lo - lé gam - - bū - - ro shūnn donn do - sé
Lai - lī - ki ha - rōsh o - ré Majnun o lo - - lé!