New to the bliss so long denied,

Like Viśvámitra once, alas,

He marks not how the seasons pass.

That saint ten thousand years remained,

By sweet Ghritáchí's[640] love enchained,

And deemed those years, that flew away

So lightly, but a single day.

O, if those years unheeded flew

By him who times and seasons knew,

Unequalled for his lofty mind,