Drink wine! and then as Mahmud thou wilt reign,
And hear a music passing David's strain:
Think not of past or future, seize to-day,
Then all thy life will not be lived in vain.
Ten Powers, and nine spheres, eight heavens made He,
And planets seven, of six sides, as we see,
Five senses, and four elements, three souls,
Two worlds, but only one, O man, like thee.
120. L. A summary of the Muhammadan doctrine of «Emanations.» See Gulshan i Raz, p. 21. Three souls, i.e., vegetive, animal and human, as in Aristotle's De Anima. Akhtaram (?), also in Cambridge MS.
Jewry hath seen a thousand prophets die,
Sinai a thousand Musas mount the sky;
How many Cæsars Rome's proud forum crossed!
'Neath Kasra's dome how many monarchs lie!