Will ever to Maisuna's heart

Be dearer, pamper'd fool, than thee.

TO MY FATHER[29]

(By the Caliph Yazid)

Must then my failings from the shaft

Of anger ne'er escape?

And dost thou storm because I've quaff'd

The water of the grape?

That I can thus from wine be driv'n

Thou surely ne'er canst think—