Are you depressed? Then take of bhang one grain,
Of rosy grape-juice take one pint or twain;
Sufis, you say, must not take this or that,
Then go and eat the pebbles off the plain!
251. N. In line 1 and 2 scan yakjawaki and manaki, ak being the diminutive, and ya the ya i tankir, displacing the izafat: Lumsden, ii, 269. Bhang, a narcotic, made from hemp.
I saw a busy potter by the way
Kneading with might and main a lump of clay;
And, lo! the clay cried, «Use me gently, pray;
I was a man myself but yesterday!»
252. C. L. N. A. B. I. J. Hal, ecstasy.
Oh! wine is richer that the realm of Jam,
More fragrant than the food of Miriam;
Sweeter are sighs that drunkards heave at morn
Than strains of Bu Sa'id and Bin Adham.
253. C. L. N. A. I. J. Abu Sa'id Abu'l Khair and Ibrahim Bin Adham are both mentioned in the Nafahat ul Uns. «Miriam's food.» See Koran, xix. 24. Note izafat dropped after silent he.