Of sensual taint, and therefore call’d Salāmān.
And who Absāl?—The lust-adoring body,
Slave to the blood and sense—through whom the Soul,
Although the body’s very life it be,
Does yet imbibe the knowledge and desire
Of things of sense; and these united thus
By such a tie God only can unloose,
Body and soul are lovers each of other.
What is the Sea on which they sail’d?—the Sea
Of animal desire—the sensual abyss,