A hundred notes throb in my bosom. 400

How shall I tell what devotion he inspires?

A block of dry wood wept at parting from him.[41]

The Moslem’s being is where he manifests his glory:

Many a Sinai springs from the dust on his path.

My image was created by his mirror, 405

My dawn rises from the sun of his breast.

My repose is a perpetual fever,

My evening hotter than the morning of Judgement Day:[42]

He is the April cloud and I his garden,