No artizan can work without his tools. The deuce!
Thus Mejnūn, when he’d heard by chance from passing wight,
His Laylā was an invalid (which caused him fright),
Exclaimed: ‘Alas! Without excuse I cannot go!
And if I visit not the sick one, I’m all woe!450
Would that I were physician, with his healing art;
Then could I see my Laylā; none would dare me thwart!’
And now he cries: ‘I have it! I’ve a right to go!
No bashfulness shall keep me from her portico!’
Had bats but eyes, with which to see and find their way,