Who told him ‘Umer, then, beneath date-palm slept fast.
Beneath a date-palm! Far from mankind’s busy plod.
That date-palm’s shadow shaded the Shadow of God![191]
He went towards the tree; a station took afar;
He saw ‘Umer; a fit of trembling showed his fear.
On that ambassador did awe and dread alight.
While o’er his heart there stole a sense of sweet delight.45
Two feelings, love and dread, by nature opposites,
Were mingled in his bosom by some occult rites.
He thought within himself: “I’ve many princes seen;