So soon as it is purged from dross that low it laid.
We’ll now go back to Zeyd, and proffer him advice;
We’ll warn him not to risk dishonour, paltering’s price.
Thou shalt not Zeyd now find; he’s surely run away,
He’s clean absconded by the door; had naught to say.170
Had’st thou been Zeyd, like him thou’dst lost been in a maze;
As stars die out when sunlight sets the skies ablaze.
E’en as no track points out where was galaxy’s place;
Thou’lt find no signs of Zeyd, no footstep, sign, or trace.
Our senses falter, all our reasoning is lost,