SAADIS’ BOOSTAN (FRUIT GARDEN OR GARDEN OF PLEASURE) Continued:
CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE CANDLE AND THE MOTH:
I remember one night lying sleepless in bed,
That I heard what the moth to the fair candle said:
“A lover am I, if I burn it is well!
Why you should be weeping and burning, do tell.”
“Oh my poor humble lover!” the candle replied,
“My friend, the sweet honey away from we hied.
When sweetness away from my body departs,
A fire-like Farhads[76] to my summit then starts.”