When her tail was agitated, and she said:

‘O thou who art not informed of thy own state,

How shall I give thee an account of my condition?’

When the words of the dog came upon my ear,

A resplendent sun fell into my mind.

In the sense of (these words indicative of the dog’s) insanity,

My own sense found the authority of a precept.[263]

The desire of wandering in the garden left my heart,

Which assumed the quality of a tulip and a deep mark;

It saw nothing upon the path of profligacy