I heard the Well-Belovéd call—

Zahir, where is my beauty gone,

Thou must have robbed me after all.

ZAHIR.

[XLVIII.]

O Tyrannous One, when from my heart was drawn

The fatal arrow, like a scarlet flood

My life gushed forth; but yet the one word Hope

Was written in my blood.

Why should the Cosmos turn its wheel of worlds