Nil is the Nile of Misraim by thy boons ✿ Who makest misery smile with fingers five.
Then I wrote in the Suls[[232]] character:—
There be no writer who from Death shall fleet, ✿ But what his hand hath writ men shall repeat:
Write, therefore, naught save what shall serve thee when ✿ Thou see't on Judgment-Day an so thou see't!
Then I wrote in the character Naskh:—[[233]]
When to sore parting Fate our love shall doom, ✿ To distant life by Destiny decreed,
We cause the inkhorn's lips to 'plain our pains, ✿ And tongue our utterance with the talking reed.
And I wrote in the Túmár character[[234]]:—
Kingdom with none endures; if thou deny ✿ This truth, where be the Kings of earlier earth?
Set trees of goodliness while rule endures, ✿ And when thou art fallen they shall tell thy worth.