That rarest beauty ever bides my foe ✿ Who holds my heart and lurks in secresy:
Speaking, I speak of nothing save her charms ✿ And when I’m dumb in heart-core woneth she.
Then he wept sore and recited the following:—
And in my liver higher flames the fire; ✿ You are my wish and longsome still I yearn:
To you (none other!) bend I and I hope ✿ (Lovers long-suffering are!) your grace to earn;
And that you pity me whose frame by Love ✿ Is waste and weak his heart with sore concern:
Relent, be gen’rous, tender-hearted, kind: ✿ From you I’ll ne’er remove, from you ne’er turn!
Then he wept and recited these also:—
Came to me care when came the love of thee, ✿ Cruel sleep fled me like thy cruelty:
Tells me the messenger that thou art wroth: ✿ Allah forefend what evils told me he!