Blew from my lover’s land (the land that owns ✿ Those charms so sore a grief in soul excite),
“O breeze, that visitest her land, perhaps ✿ Breathing her scent, thou mayst revive my sprite!”
And when he ended his verse he gave a great cry and fell down in a fainting-fit. The Princesses sat round him, weeping over him, till he recovered and repeated these two couplets:—
Haply and happily may Fortune bend her rein ✿ Bringing my love, for Time’s a freke of jealous strain;[[103]]
Fortune may prosper me, supply mine every want, ✿ And bring a blessing where before were ban and bane.
Then he wept till he fainted again, and presently coming to himself recited the two following couplets:—
My wish, mine illness, mine unease! by Allah, own ✿ Art thou content? then I in love contented wone!
Dost thou forsake me thus sans crime or sin ✿ Meet me in ruth, I pray, and be our parting gone.
Then he wept till he swooned away once more and when he revived he repeated these couplets:—
Sleep fled me, by my side wake ever shows ✿ And hoard of tear-drops from these eyne aye flows;