That floats untamed, untaken, on the wind.

From an unsympathetic world I flee

To you, your love and fellowship I crave,

O Singers dead, Sauda and Mushafi,

I lay my song as tribute on your grave.

AMIR.

[IX.]

Of no use is my pain to her nor me:

For what disease is love the remedy?

My heart that may not to her love attain