I ate flesh in public at undurn day!
Nor chid I the fair, save in word of love.
Nor seek Meccah's plain in salvation-way:
Nor stand I praying, like rest, who cry,
"Hie salvation-wards!" at the dawn's first ray....'
By Allah! he treadeth no carpet of mine. Who is at the door other than he?" Said 'Adi, "Jarir Ibn al-Khatafah." And Omar cried, "Tis he who saith:--
'But for ill-spying glances, had our eyes espied
Eyes of the antelope, and ringlets of the Reems!
A Huntress of the eyes, by night-time came; and I
cried, "Turn in peace! No time for visit this, meseems."'