Would Heaven conjoint we lived, and if I die ✿ Death only grant me a grave within her grave:
For I’d no longer deign to live my life ✿ If told upon her head is laid the pave.[[99]]
Quoth Omar, “Away with him from me! Who is at the door?” and quoth Adi, “Kuthayyir ’Azzah”[[100]]; whereupon Omar cried, “’Tis he who saith in one of his odes:—
Some talk of faith and creed and nothing else ✿ And wait for pains of Hell in prayer-seat;[[101]]
But did they hear what I from Azzah heard, ✿ They’d make prostration, fearfull, at her feet.
“Leave the mention of him. Who is at the door?” Quoth Adi, “Al-Ahwas al-’Ansárí.”[[102]] Cried Omar, “Allah Almighty put him away and estrange him from His mercy! Is it not he who said, berhyming on a Medinite’s slave-girl, so she might outlive her lord:—
Allah be judge betwixt me and her lord! ✿ Who ever flies with her and I pursue.
“He shall not come in to me. Who is at the door, other than he?” Adi replied, “Hammám bin Ghálib al-Farazdak;”[[103]] and Omar said, “’Tis he who saith, glorying in whoring:—
Two girls let me down eighty fathoms deep, ✿ As low sweeps a falcon wi’ pinions spread;
And cried, as my toes touched the ground, “Dost live ✿ To return, or the fall hath it done thee dead?”