s: The bad among the good are here mixed ever, II. 229.


s: The body is the soul's poor house or home, II. 98.


s: The body's salt, the soul is; which when gone, II. 162.


s: The bound almost now of my book I see, II. 140.


s: The doctors in the Talmud, say, II. 235.


s: The factions of the great ones call, II. 101.


s: The fire of hell this strange condition hath, II. 235.


s: The gods to kings the judgment give to sway, I. 136.


s: The less our sorrows here and suff'rings cease, II. 214.


s: The lictors bundled up their rods; beside, II. 113.


s: The longer thread of life we spin, II. 224.


s: The mellow touch of music most doth wound, I. 12.


s: The mountains of the Scriptures are, some say, II. 226.


s: The person crowns the place; your lot doth fall, II. 128.


s: The power of princes rest in the consent, II. 155.


s: The readiness of doing doth express, II. 92.


s: The repetition of the name made known, II. 229.


s: The rose was sick, and smiling died, II. 44.


s: The saints-bell calls, and, Julia, I must read, II. 7.


s: The same who crowns the conquerer, will be, II. 227.


s: The seeds of treason choke up as they spring, I. 9.


s: The shame of man's face is no more, II. 228.


s: The strength of baptism that's within, II. 247.


s: The sup'rabundance of my store, II. 220.


s: The tears of saints more sweet by far, II. 224.


s: The time the bridegroom stays from hence, II. 225.


s: The twilight is no other thing, we say, II. 148.


s: The Virgin Mary was, as I have read, II. 232.


s: The Virgin Mother stood at a distance, there, II. 230.


s: The work is done, now let my laurel be, II. 249.


s: The work is done: young men and maidens, set, II. 164.


s: Then did I live when I did see, II. 140.


s: There is no evil that we do commit, II. 233.


s: There's no constraint to do amiss, II. 239.


s: These fresh beauties (we can prove), I. 16.


s: These springs were maidens once that lov'd, I. 225.


s: These summer-birds did with thy master stay, I. 189.


s: These temporal goods God, the most wise, commends, II. 234.


s: Things are uncertain, and the more we get, II. 144.


s: This day is yours, great Charles! and in this war, II. 87.


s: This day, my Julia, thou must make, II. 83.


s: This is my comfort when she's most unkind, II. 151.


s: This is the height of justice: that to do, II. 14.


s: This rule of manners I will teach my guests, II. 137.


s: This stone can tell the story of my life, II. 128.


s: Those ends in war the best contentment bring, II. 144.


s: Those garments lasting evermore, II. 242.


s: Those ills that mortal men endure, I. 192.


s: Those possessions short-liv'd are, II. 50.


s: Those saints which God loves best, II. 175.


s: Those tapers which we set upon the grave, II. 230.


s: Thou art a plant sprung up to wither never, I. 122.


s: Thou art to all lost love the best, I. 132.


s: Thou bid'st me come; I cannot come; for why? II. 186.


s: Thou cam'st to cure me, doctor, of my cold, I. 121.


s: Thou had'st the wreath before, now take the tree, I. 188.


s: Thou hast made many houses for the dead, II. 95.


s: Thou hast promis'd, Lord, to be, II. 179.


s: Thou knowest, my Julia, that it is thy turn, I. 247.


s: Thou mighty lord and master of the lyre, II. 100.


s: Thou sail'st with others in this Argus here, I. 26.


s: Thou say'st I'm dull; if edgeless so I be, II. 157.


s: Thou say'st thou lov'st me, Sappho; I say no, II. 98.


s: Thou see'st me, Lucia, this year droop, II. 126.


s: Thou sent'st to me a true love-knot, but I, I. 217.


s: Thou shall not all die; for while love's fire shines, I. 179.


s: Thou, thou that bear'st the sway, II. 100.


s: Though a wise man all pressures can sustain, I. 72.


s: Though by well warding many blows we've pass'd, II. 45.


s: Though frankincense the deities require, II. 117.


s: Though from without no foes at all we fear, II. 114.


s: Though good things answer many good intents, I. 137.


s: Though hourly comforts from the gods we see, I. 137.


s: Though I cannot give thee fires, I. 161.


s: Though long it be, years may repay the debt, II. 31.


s: Though thou be'st all that active love, II. 245.


s: Thousands each day pass by, which we, II. 39.


s: Three fatal sisters wait upon each sin, II. 172.


s: Three lovely sisters working were, I. 20.


s: Thrice, and above, bless'd, my soul's half, art thou, I. 40.


s: Thrice happy roses, so much grac'd to have, II. 60.


s: Till I shall come again let this suffice, I. 183.


s: Time is the bound of things where e'er we go, II. 71.


s: 'Tis but a dog-like madness in bad kings, II. 115.


s: 'Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend, II. 171.


s: 'Tis heresy in others: in your face, I. 225.


s: 'Tis liberty to serve one lord; but he, II. 103.


s: 'Tis much among the filthy to be clean, II. 147.


s: 'Tis never, or but seldom known, II. 80.


s: 'Tis no discomfort in the world to fall, II. 147.


s: 'Tis not a thousand bullocks' thighs, I. 24.


s: 'Tis not the food but the content, I. 154.


s: 'Tis not the walls or purple that defends, II. 53.


s: 'Tis said as Cupid danc'd among, II. 49.


s: 'Tis still observ'd that fame ne'er sings, II. 55.


s: 'Tis still observ'd those men most valiant are, II. 134.


s: 'Tis the chyrurgeon's praise and height of art, II. 84.


s: 'Tis worse than barbarous cruelty to show, I. 251.


s: To a love feast we both invited are, II. 191.


s: To all our wounds here, whatsoe'er they be, II. 238.


s: To an old sore a long cure must go on, II. 138.


s: To conquered men, some comfort 'tis to fall, I. 60.


s: To find that tree of life whose fruits did feed, I. 74.


s: To get thine ends lay bashfulness aside, I. 7.


s: To him who longs unto his Christ to go, II. 222.


s: To his book's end this last line he'd have placed, II. 165.


s: To house the hag, you must do this, II. 104.


s: To join with them who here confer, II. 255.


s: To-morrow, Julia, I betimes must rise, I. 127.


s: To mortal men great loads allotted be, II. 51.


s: To my revenge, and to her desperate fears, I. 107.


s: To print our poems, the propulsive cause, I. 211.


s: To safeguard man from wrongs, there nothing must, I. 81.


s: To seek of God more than we well can find, II. 192.


s: To sup with thee thou did'st me home invite, II. 78.


s: To this white temple of my heroes, here, I. 232.


s: To work a wonder, God would have her shown, II. 231.


s: Touch but thy lyre, my Harry, and I hear, II. 94.


s: Trap of a player turn'd a priest now is, II. 155.


s: Tread, sirs, as lightly as you can, II. 28.


s: True mirth resides not in the smiling skin, II. 172.


s: True rev'rence is, as Cassiodore doth prove, II. 224.


s: True to yourself and sheets, you'll have me swear, I. 171.


s: Truth, by her own simplicity is known, II. 160.


s: Truth is best found out by the time and eyes, II. 108.


s: 'Twas Cæsar's saying: kings no less conquerors are, II. 88.


s: Twice has Pudica been a bride, and led, I. 225.


s: Twilight, no other thing is, poets say, II. 96.


s: 'Twixt kings and subjects there's this mighty odds, I. 12.


s: 'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known, II. 96.


s: 'Twixt truth and error there's this difference known, II. 144.


s: Two instruments belong unto our God, II. 244.


s: Two of a thousand things are disallow'd, I. 10.


s: Two parts of us successively command, I. 171.


s: Two things do make society to stand, II. 93.


s: Under a lawn, than skies more clear, I. 29.


s: Upon her cheeks she wept, and from those showers, I. 256.


s: Ursley, she thinks those velvet patches grace, I. 248.


s: Virgins, time past, known were these, I. 77.


s: Want is a softer wax, that takes thereon, II. 108.


s: Wantons we are, and though our words be such, II. 19.


s: Wash clean the vessel, lest ye sour, II. 149.


s: Wash your hands, or else the fire, II. 80.


s: Wassail the trees, that they may bear, II. 80.


s: We are co-heirs with Christ; nor shall His own, II. 246.


s: We blame, nay we despise her pains, II. 98.


s: We credit most our sight; one eye doth please, II. 108.


s: We merit all we suffer, and by far, II. 243.


s: We pray 'gainst war, yet we enjoy no peace, II. 81.


s: We trust not to the multitude in war, II. 112.


s: We two are last in hell; what may we fear, I. 38.


s: Weep for the dead, for they have lost this light, II. 121.


s: Weigh me the fire; or canst thou find, II. 170.


s: Welcome! but yet no entrance, till we bless, I. 155.


s: Welcome, great Cæsar, welcome now you are, II. 123.


s: Welcome, most welcome to our vows and us, I. 28.


s: Welcome to this my college, and though late, II. 129.


s: Well may my book come forth like public day, _Dedication_.


s: Were I to give the baptism, I would choose, I. 32.


s: What! can my Kellam drink his sack, II. 112.


s: What, conscience, say, is it in thee, I. 210.


s: What fate decreed, time now has made us see, II. 66.


s: What God gives, and what we take, II. 202.


s: What here we hope for, we shall once inherit, II. 200.


s: What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve, II. 18.


s: What is't that wastes a prince? example shows, II. 162.


s: What need we marry women, when, II. 120.


s: What now we like, anon we disapprove, I. 240.


s: What offspring other men have got, II. 42.


s: What others have with cheapness seen and ease, II. 161.


s: What sweeter music can we bring, II. 202.


s: What though my harp and viol be, II. 199.


s: What though the heaven be lowering now, I. 236.


s: What though the sea be calm? Trust to the shore, I. 104.


s: What times of sweetness this fair day foreshows, I. 52.


s: What will ye, my poor orphans, do, II. 19.


s: What wisdom, learning, wit or wrath, I. 57.


s: What's got by justice is established sure, II. 141.


s: What's that we see from far? the spring of day, I. 139.


s: Whatever comes, let's be content withal, II. 187.


s: Whatever men for loyalty pretend, II. 163.


s: When a man's faith is frozen up, as dead, II. 196.


s: When after many lusters thou shalt be, II. 36.


s: When age or chance has made me blind, I. 38.


s: When all birds else do of their music fail, II. 57.


s: When as Leander young was drown'd, I. 49.


s: When Chub brings in his harvest, still he cries, II. 157.


s: When fear admits no hope of safety, then, II. 163.


s: When first I find those numbers thou dost write, II. 125.


s: When flowing garments I behold, II. 138.


s: When I behold Thee, almost slain, II. 252.


s: When I consider, dearest, thou dost stay, I. 243.


s: When I departed am, ring thou my knell, I. 138.


s: When I did go from thee, I felt that smart, I. 50.


s: When I go hence, ye closet-gods, I fear, II. 30.


s: When I of Villars do but hear the name, I. 172.


s: When I shall sin, pardon my trespass here, II. 206.


s: When I through all my many poems look, I. 117.


s: When I thy parts run o'er, I can't espy, I. 9.


s: When I thy singing next shall hear, I. 25.


s: When Julia blushes she does show, I. 150.


s: When Julia chid, I stood as mute the while, I. 70.


s: When laws full powers have to sway, we see, II. 12.


s: When man is punished, he is plagued still, II. 211.


s: When my date's done, and my grey age must die, I. 47.


s: When one is past, another care we have, I. 20.


s: When once the sin has fully acted been, II. 178.


s: When once the soul has lost her way, II. 243.


s: When out of bed my love doth spring, I. 193.


s: When some shall say, Fair once my Silvia was, I. 24.


s: When that day comes, whose evening says I'm gone, I. 15.


s: When thou dost play and sweetly sing, I. 178.


s: When Thou wast taken, Lord, I oft have read, II. 251.


s: When times are troubled then forbear; but speak, II. 155.


s: When to a house I come and see, II. 136.


s: When to thy porch I come, and ravish'd see, II. 154.


s: When we 'gainst Satan stoutly fight, the more, II. 213.


s: When well we speak and nothing do that's good, II. 247.


s: When what is lov'd is present, love doth spring, I. 13.


s: When with the virgin morning thou dost rise, I. 159.


s: When words we want, Love teacheth to indite, II. 92.


s: Whene'er I go, or whatsoe'er befalls, II. 86.


s: Whene'er my heart love's warmth but entertains, I. 47.


s: Where God is merry, there write down thy fears, II. 191.


s: Where love begins, there dead thy first desire, II. 100.


s: Where others love and praise my verses, still, I. 80.


s: Where pleasures rule a kingdom, never there, II. 157.


s: Whether I was myself, or else did see, II. 156.


s: While Fates permit us let's be merry, I. 215.


s: While leanest beasts in pastures feed, I. 93.


s: While, Lydia, I was loved of thee, I. 85.


s: While thou didst keep thy candour undefil'd, I. 5.


s: White as Zenobia's teeth, the which the girls, II. 62.


s: White though ye be, yet, lilies, know, I. 89.


s: Whither, mad maiden, wilt thou roam? I. 4.


s: Whither? say, whither shall I fly, I. 48.


s: Who after his transgression doth repent, II. 84.


s: Who begs to die for fear of human need, II. 95.


s: Who forms a godhead out of gold or stone, I. 147.


s: Who may do most, does least; the bravest will, II. 150.


s: Who plants an olive but to eat the oil? II. 151.


s: Who, railing, drives the lazar from his door, II. 46.


s: Who read'st this book that I have writ, II. 32.


s: Who violates the customs, hurts the health, II. 147.


s: Who will not honour noble numbers when, II. 81.


s: Who with a little cannot be content, II. 12.


s: Whom should I fear to write to if I can, I. 77.


s: Whose head befringed with bescattered tresses, II. 257.


s: Why do not all fresh maids appear, I. 128.


s: Why do ye weep, sweet babes? Can tears, I. 129.


s: Why dost thou wound and break my heart, II. 158.


s: Why, madam, will ye longer weep, I. 237.


s: Why should we covet much, when as we know, II. 134.


s: Why this flower is now call'd so, I. 16.


s: With blameless carriage, I lived here, I. 48.


s: With golden censors and with incense here, II. 208.


s: Woe, woe to them, who by a ball of strife, I. 29.


s: Women, although they ne'er so goodly make it, II. 41.


s: Words beget anger; anger brings forth blows, II. 107.


s: Would I see lawn, clear as the heaven and thin? I. 197.


s: Would ye have fresh cheese and cream? I. 229.


s: Wrinkles no more are or no less, I. 179.


s: Wrongs, if neglected, vanish in short time, II. 75.


s: Ye pretty housewives, would ye know, I. 204.


s: Ye silent shades, whose each tree here, I. 211.


s: You are a lord, an earl; nay more, a man, I. 215.


s: You ask me what I do, and how I live, II. 138.


s: You say I love not 'cause I do not play, I. 16.


s: You say to me-wards your affection's strong, I. 61.


s: You say you're sweet; how should we know, I. 139.


s: You see this gentle stream that glides, II. 54.


s: Who with thy leaves shall wipe, at need,


s: The place where swelling piles do breed;


s: If thou dislik'st the piece thou light'st on first,


s: Think that of all, that I have writ, the worst:


s: But if thou read'st my book unto the end,


s: And still do'st this and that verse, reprehend;


s: The extreme scab take thee, and thine, for me.


s: Methought, her long small legs and thighs


s: Goes the world now, it will with thee go hard:


s: The fattest hogs we grease the more with lard.


s: To him that has, there shall be added more;


s: Who is penurious, he shall still be poor.


s: Blanch swears her husband's lovely; when a scald


s: Has blear'd his eyes: besides, his head is bald


s: Next, his wild ears, like leathern wings full spread,


s: Cuffe comes to church much: but he keeps his bed


s: Those Sundays only whenas briefs are read.


s: This makes Cuffe dull; and troubles him the most,


s: Because he cannot sleep i' th' church free cost.


s: _Briefs._--Letters recommending the collection of alms.


s: Fone says, those mighty whiskers he does wear


s: Are twigs of birch, and willow, growing there:


s: If so, we'll think too, when he does condemn


s: Boys to the lash, that he does whip with them.


s: He'll slit her nose; but blubb'ring, she replies,


s: Good sir, make no more cuts i' th' outward skin,


s: Glasco had none, but now some teeth has got;


s: Which though they fur, will neither ache or rot.


s: Six teeth he has, whereof twice two are known


s: Which not for use, but merely for the sight,


s: He wears all day, and draws those teeth at night.


s: To th' board, so hot as none could touch the same:


s: Furze three or four times with his cheeks did blow


s: It seem'd by this time to admit the touch,


s: But none could eat it, 'cause it stunk so much.


s: Gryll eats, but ne'er says grace; to speak the truth,


s: Gryll either keeps his breath to cool his broth,


s: Or else, because Gryll's roast does burn his spit,


s: Gryll will not therefore say a grace for it.


s: Strut, once a foreman of a shop we knew;


s: But turn'd a ladies' usher now, 'tis true:


s: Tell me, has Strut got e're a title more?


s: First, Jolly's wife is lame; then next loose-hipp'd:


s: Squint-ey'd, hook-nos'd; and lastly, kidney-lipp'd.


s: Pagget, a schoolboy, got a sword, and then


s: He vow'd destruction both to birch and men:


s: Who would not think this younker fierce to fight?


s: Yet coming home, but somewhat late (last night),


s: Untruss, his master bade him; and that word


s: Made him take up his shirt, lay down his sword.


s: Prig now drinks water, who before drank beer;


s: What's now the cause? we know the case is clear;


s: Look in Prig's purse, the chev'ril there tells you


s: Prig money wants, either to buy or brew.


s: Batt he gets children, not for love to rear 'em;


s: But out of hope his wife might die to bear 'em.


s: Much-more provides and hoards up like an ant,


s: Yet Much-more still complains he is in want.


s: Let Much-more justly pay his tithes; then try


s: How both his meal and oil will multiply.


s: Luggs, by the condemnation of the Bench,


s: Was lately whipt for lying with a wench.


s: Thus pains and pleasures turn by turn succeed:


s: He smarts at last who does not first take heed.


s: Gubbs calls his children kitlings: and would bound,


s: Some say, for joy, to see those kitlings drown'd.


s: For payment promis'd, though thou never pay:


s: Let it be Dooms-day; nay, take longer scope;


s: Pay when th'art honest; let me have some hope.


s: Of flanks and chines of beef doth Gorrell boast


s: He has at home; but who tastes boil'd or roast?


s: Look in his brine-tub, and you shall find there


s: Two stiff blue pigs'-feet and a sow's cleft ear.


s: Wither'd with years, and bed-rid Mumma lies;


s: Dry-roasted all, but raw yet in her eyes.


s: Bar close as you can, and bolt fast too your door,


s: Yet quickly you'll see by the turn of a pin,


s: Sudds launders bands in piss, and starches them


s: Both with her husband's and her own tough fleam.


s: Guess cuts his shoes, and limping, goes about


s: To have men think he's troubled with the gout;


s: But 'tis no gout, believe it, but hard beer,


s: Whose acrimonious humour bites him here.


s: Crooked you are, but that dislikes not me:


s: So you be straight where virgins straight should be.


s: Groynes, for his fleshly burglary of late,


s: The word is Roman; but in English known:


s: Penance, and standing so, are both but one.


s: To paint the fiend, Pink would the devil see;


s: Let but Pink's face i' th' looking-glass be shown,


s: And Pink may paint the devil's by his own.


s: To cleanse his eyes, Tom Brock makes much ado,


s: But not his mouth, the fouler of the two.


s: A clammy rheum makes loathsome both his eyes:


s: His mouth, worse furr'd with oaths and blasphemies.


s: Y'ave laughed enough, sweet, vary now your text!


s: And laugh no more; or laugh, and lie down next.


s: Shark, when he goes to any public feast,


s: Eats to one's thinking, of all there, the least.


s: What saves the master of the house thereby


s: When if the servants search, they may descry


s: In his wide codpiece, dinner being done,


s: Two napkins cramm'd up, and a silver spoon?


s: Bungy does fast; looks pale; puts sackcloth on;


s: Or that this younker keeps so strict a Lent,


s: Fearing to break the king's commandement:


s: But being poor, and knowing flesh is dear,


s: He keeps not one, but many Lents i' th' year.


s: Sneape has a face so brittle, that it breaks


s: Forth into blushes whensoe'er he speaks.


s: Leech boasts, he has a pill, that can alone


s: With speed give sick men their salvation:


s: 'Tis strange, his father long time has been ill,


s: And credits physic, yet not trusts his pill:


s: And why? he knows he must of cure despair,


s: You say, you love me! that I thus must prove:


s: It that you lie, then I will swear you love.


s: An old, old widow Greedy needs would wed,


s: But in regard, 'twas often said, this old


s: Woman would bring him more than could be told.


s: He took her; now the jest in this appears,


s: So old she was, that none could tell her years.


s: That was the proverb. Let my mistress be


s: Curse not the mice, no grist of thine they eat;


s: But curse thy children, they consume thy wheat.


s: Mease brags of pullets which he eats: but Mease


s: Ne'er yet set tooth in stump or rump of these.


s: Paske, though his debt be due upon the day


s: For why, says he, all debts and their arrears


s: Have reference to the shoulders, not the ears.


s: Prigg, when he comes to houses, oft doth use,


s: Rather than fail, to steal from thence old shoes:


s: Sound or unsound be they, or rent or whole,


s: Shift now has cast his clothes: got all things new;


s: Save but his hat, and that he cannot mew.


s: If wounds in clothes Cuts calls his rags, 'tis clear


s: His linings are the matter running there.


s: When others gain much by the present cast,


s: The cobblers' getting time is at the last.


s: Doll, she so soon began the wanton trade,


s: She ne'er remembers that she was a maid.


s: Skrew lives by shifts; yet swears by no small oaths


s: For all his shifts he cannot shift his clothes.


s: Linnet plays rarely on the lute, we know;


s: And sweetly sings, but yet his breath says no.


s: Glass, out of deep, and out of desp'rate want,


s: Just upon five and thirty pounds a year.


s: Add to that thirty-five but five pounds more,


s: He'll turn a Papist, ranker than before.


s: Eeles winds and turns, and cheats and steals; yet Eeles


s: Driving these sharking trades, is out at heels.


s: Rasp plays at nine-holes; and 'tis known he gets


s: But of his gettings there's but little sign;


s: When one hole wastes more than he gets by nine.


s: Center is known weak-sighted, and he sells


s: Why wears he none? Because we may suppose,


s: Where leaven wants, there level lies the nose.


s: Skinns, he dined well to-day: how do you think?


s: His nails they were his meat, his rheum the drink.


s: Pievish doth boast that he's the very first


s: Of English poets, and 'tis thought the worst.


s: Jolly and Jilly bite and scratch all day,


s: But yet get children (as the neighbours say).


s: The reason is: though all the day they fight,


s: They cling and close some minutes of the night.


s: Now Patrick with his footmanship has done,


s: His eyes and ears strive which should fastest run.


s: Two she spat out, a cough forced out the rest.


s: Why walks Nick Flimsey like a malcontent!


s: No, but because the dingthrift now is poor,


s: And knows not where i' th' world to borrow more.


s: Last night thou didst invite me home to eat;


s: And showed me there much plate, but little meat.


s: Prithee, when next thou do'st invite, bar state,


s: And give me meat, or give me else thy plate.


s: Roots had no money; yet he went o' the score,


s: For a wrought purse; can any tell wherefore?


s: Say, what should Roots do with a purse in print,


s: That had not gold nor silver to put in't?


s: Craw cracks in sirrop; and does stinking say,


s: Who can hold that, my friends, that will away?


s: Old Parson Beanes hunts six days of the week,


s: And on the seventh, he has his notes to seek.


s: Six days he hollows so much breath away,


s: That on the seventh, he can nor preach or pray.


s: This lady's short, that mistress she is tall;


s: But long or short, I'm well content with all.


s: Rook he sells feathers, yet he still doth cry


s: Thus, though the Rook does rail against the sin,


s: He loves the gain that vanity brings in.


s: Spunge makes his boasts that he's the only man


s: Is this his glory? then his triumph's poor;


s: I know the tun of Heidleberg holds more.


s: You say you're young; but when your teeth are told


s: To be but three, black-ey'd, we'll think you old.


s: Huncks has no money, he does swear or say,


s: About him, when the tavern's shot's to pay.


s: If he has none in 's pockets, trust me, Huncks


s: Has none at home in coffers, desks, or trunks.


s: Feacie, some say, doth wash her clothes i' th' lie


s: That sharply trickles from her either eye.


s: The laundresses, they envy her good-luck,


s: Who can with so small charges drive the buck.


s: What needs she fire and ashes to consume,


s: Who can scour linens with her own salt rheum?


s: Skurf by his nine-bones swears, and well he may:


s: When Jill complains to Jack for want of meat,


s: Jack kisses Jill and bids her freely eat:


s: Jill says, Of what? says Jack, On that sweet kiss,


s: The food of poets. So I thought, says Jill,


s: That makes them look so lank, so ghost-like still.


s: Let poets feed on air, or what they will;


s: Let me feed full, till that I fart, says Jill.


s: Believe him not; for he forgot it quite,


s: Being drunk, who 'twas that can'd his ribs last night.


s: Kissing and bussing differ both in this;


s: We buss our wantons, but our wives we kiss.


s: Maggot frequents those houses of good-cheer,


s: Talks most, eats most, of all the feeders there.


s: He raves through lean, he rages through the fat,


s: (What gets the master of the meal by that?)


s: How would he eat, were not his hindrance such?


s: Joan would go tell her hairs; and well she might,


s: Having but seven in all: three black, four white.


s: Letcher was carted first about the streets,


s: For false position in his neighbour's sheets:


s: Next, hanged for thieving: now the people say,


s: His carting was the prologue to this play.


s: Dundrige his issue hath; but is not styl'd,


s: Once on a Lord Mayor's Day, in Cheapside, when


s: Skulls could not well pass through that scum of men,


s: For quick despatch Skulls made no longer stay


s: Than but to breathe, and everyone gave way;


s: For, as he breathed, the people swore from thence


s: Broomsted a lameness got by cold and beer:


s: And to the bath went, to be cured there:


s: His feet were helped, and left his crutch behind;


s: But home returned, as he went forth, half blind.


s: With paste of almonds, Syb her hands doth scour;


s: Then gives it to the children to devour.


s: In cream she bathes her thighs, more soft than silk;


s: Then to the poor she freely gives the milk.


s: The eggs of pheasants wry-nosed Tooly sells,


s: But ne'er so much as licks the speckled shells:


s: With superstition, as the cream of meats.


s: The cock and hen he feeds; but not a bone


s: Both for their comely need and some to spare;


s: But Blanch has not so much upon her head


s: As to bind up her chaps when she is dead.


s: And, working it, by chance from Umber's erse


s: Flew out a crack, so mighty, that the fart,


s: As Umber states, did make his lion start.


s: Urles had the gout so, that he could not stand;


s: Then from his feet it shifted to his hand:


s: When 'twas in's feet, his charity was small;


s: Now 'tis in's hand, he gives no alms at all.


s: Franck ne'er wore silk she swears; but I reply,


s: She now wears silk to hide her blood-shot eye.


s: You say you'll kiss me, and I thank you for it;


s: But stinking breath, I do as hell abhor it.


s: What is the reason Coone so dully smells?


s: Horne sells to others teeth; but has not one


s: To grace his own gums, or of box, or bone.


s: Fie, quoth my lady, what a stink is here?


s: When 'twas her breath that was the carrionere.


s: Cock calls his wife his Hen: when Cock goes to't,


s: Cock treads his Hen, but treads her underfoot.


s: What made that mirth last night? the neighbours say,


s: That Bran the baker did his breech beray:


s: I rather think, though they may speak the worst,


s: 'Twas to his batch, but leaven laid there first.


s: Snare, ten i' th' hundred calls his wife; and why?


s: He by extortion brings in three times more:


s: Grudgings turns bread to stones, when to the poor


s: He gives an alms, and chides them from his door.


s: Since Gander did his pretty youngling wed,


s: Gander, they say, doth each night piss a-bed:


s: What is the cause? Why, Gander will reply,


s: No goose lays good eggs that is trodden dry.


s: Lungs, as some say, ne'er sets him down to eat


s: But that his breath does fly-blow all the meat.


s: Cob clouts his shoes, and, as the story tells,


s: His thumb nails par'd afford him sparrables.


s: _Sparrables_, "sparrow-bills," headless nails.


s: Skoles stinks so deadly, that his breeches loath


s: His dampish buttocks furthermore to clothe;


s: Cloy'd they are up with arse; but hope, one blast


s: Will whirl about, and blow them thence at last.


s: For ropes of pearl, first Madam Ursly shows


s: A chain of corns picked from her ears and toes;


s: Then, next, to match Tradescant's curious shells,


s: Nails from her fingers mew'd she shows: what else?


s: Of teeth, as deaf as nuts, and all her own.


s: _Tradescant_, a collector of curiosities. See Note.


s: Trigg having turn'd his suit, he struts in state,


s: And tells the world he's now regenerate.


s: How could Luke Smeaton wear a shoe, or boot,


s: Franck would go scour her teeth; and setting to 't


s: Twice two fell out, all rotten at the root.


s: Paul's hands do give; what give they, bread or meat,


s: As stones and salt gloves use to give, even so


s: Paul's hands do give, nought else for ought we know.


s: Sibb, when she saw her face how hard it was,


s: For anger spat on thee, her looking-glass:


s: But weep not, crystal; for the same was meant


s: Not unto thee, but that thou didst present.


s: Slouch he packs up, and goes to several fairs,


s: And weekly markets for to sell his wares:


s: Meantime that he from place to place does roam,


s: His wife her own ware sells as fast at home.


s: Bice laughs, when no man speaks; and doth protest.


s: It is his own breech there that breaks the jest.


s: Tom shifts the trenchers; yet he never can


s: Endure that lukewarm name of serving-man:


s: Serve or not serve, let Tom do what he can,


s: Comely acts well; and when he speaks his part,


s: He doth it with the sweetest tones of art:


s: But when he sings a psalm, there's none can be


s: More curs'd for singing out of tune than he.


s: But now perceiving that it still does please


s: The sterner fates, to cross his purposes;


s: Thus if our ship fails of her anchor hold


s: We'll love the divel, so he lands the gold.


s: Old Widow Prouse, to do her neighbours evil,


s: Would give, some say, her soul unto the devil.


s: Well, when she's kill'd that pig, goose, cock, or hen,


s: What would she give to get that soul again?


s: Thou writes in prose how sweet all virgins be;


s: But there's not one, doth praise the smell of thee.


s: Seal'd up with night-gum, Loach each morning lies,


s: Till his wife licking, so unglues his eyes.


s: No question then, but such a lick is sweet,


s: When a warm tongue does with such ambers meet.


s: He prays his harvest may be well brought home.


s: What store of corn has careful Nodes, think you,


s: Whose field his foot is, and whose barn his shoe?


s: Tap, better known than trusted, as we hear,


s: Sold his old mother's spectacles for beer:


s: He'll sell her eyes, and nose, for beer and ale.


s: Tom Blinks his nose is full of weals, and these


s: Sometimes, in mirth, he says each whelk's a spark,


s: When drunk with beer, to light him home i' th' dark.


s: Peapes he does strut, and pick his teeth, as if


s: His jaws had tir'd on some large chine of beef.


s: Was cheese full ripe with tears, with bread as sad.


s: _Sad_, heavy: "watery cheese and ill-baked bread".


s: Hanch, since he lately did inter his wife,


s: He weeps and sighs, as weary of his life.


s: Say, is't for real grief he mourns? not so;


s: Tears have their springs from joy, as well as woe.


s: Long locks of late our zealot Peason wears,


s: Not for to hide his high and mighty ears;


s: No, but because he would not have it seen


s: That stubble stands where once large ears have been.


s: Reape's eyes so raw are that, it seems, the flies


s: Mistake the flesh, and fly-blow both his eyes;


s: May bait his hook with maggots taken thence.


s: Teage has told lies so long that when Teage tells


s: Truth, yet Teage's truths are untruths, nothing else.


s: Truggin a footman was; but now, grown lame,


s: Truggin now lives but to belie his name.


s: Spenke has a strong breath, yet short prayers saith;


s: Not out of want of breath, but want of faith.


s: Lulls swears he is all heart; but you'll suppose


s: Bad are all surfeits; but physicians call


s: That surfeit took by bread the worst of all.


s: Nis he makes verses; but the lines he writes


s: Serve but for matter to make paper kites.


s: Prickles is waspish, and puts forth his sting


s: For bread, drink, butter, cheese; for everything


s: That Prickles buys puts Prickles out of frame;


s: How well his nature's fitted to his name!


s: Blisse, last night drunk, did kiss his mother's knee;


s: Where will he kiss, next drunk, conjecture ye.


s: That, where meat is, will be a hanger on.


s: Which, this night harden'd, sodders up her nose.


s: Ralph pares his nails, his warts, his corns, and Ralph


s: In sev'rall tills and boxes, keeps 'em safe;


s: Instead of hartshorn, if he speaks the troth,


s: Than the dead corps, or carcase of the wine.


s: Mudge every morning to the postern comes,


s: His teeth all out, to rinse and wash his gums.


s: Lupes for the outside of his suit has paid;


s: But for his heart, he cannot have it made;


s: The inward garbage for his clothes as yet.


s: What are our patches, tatters, rags, and rents,


s: But the base dregs and lees of vestiments?


s: For thirty years Tubbs has been proud and poor;


s: 'Tis now his habit, which he can't give o'er.


s: Spokes, when he sees a roasted pig, he swears


s: Nothing he loves on't but the chaps and ears:


s: But carve to him the fat flanks, and he shall


s: Rid these, and those, and part by part eat all.


s: We read how Faunus, he the shepherds' god,


s: His wife to death whipped with a myrtle rod.


s: The rod, perhaps, was better'd by the name;


s: But had it been of birch, the death's the same.


s: Brown bread Tom Penny eats, and must of right,


s: Because his stock will not hold out for white.


s: Buggins is drunk all night, all day he sleeps;


s: This is the level-coil that Buggins keeps.


s: Boreman takes toll, cheats, natters, lies; yet Boreman,


s: For all the devil helps, will be a poor man.


s: To have a tooth twitched out of's native frame;


s: Drawn was his tooth, but stank so, that some say,


s: The barber stopped his nose, and ran away.


s: Grubs loves his wife and children, while that they


s: Can live by love, or else grow fat by play;


s: But when they call or cry on Grubs for meat,


s: Instead of bread Grubs gives them stones to eat.


s: He raves, he rends, and while he thus doth tear,


s: His wife and children fast to death for fear.


s: No question but Doll's cheeks would soon roast dry,


s: Hog has a place i' the' kitchen, and his share,


s: The flimsy livers and blue gizzards are.


s: Science puffs up, says Gut, when either pease


s: Spur jingles now, and swears by no mean oaths,


s: He's double honour'd, since he's got gay clothes:


s: Most like his suit, and all commend the trim;


s: And thus they praise the sumpter, but not him:


s: Worship, and not to th' ass that carried her.


s: Rump is a turn-broach, yet he seldom can


s: Steal a swoln sop out of a dripping-pan.


s: Old Widow Shopter, whensoe'er she cries,


s: Lets drip a certain gravy from her eyes.


s: If felt and heard, unseen, thou dost me please;


s: If seen, thou lik'st me, Deb, in none of these.


s: One silver spoon shines in the house of Croot;


s: He says his fore and after grace for it:


s: If meat he wants, then grace he says to see


s: His hungry belly borne on legs jail-free.


s: Thus have, or have not, all alike is good


s: To this our poor yet ever patient Flood.


s: When Pimp's feet sweat, as they do often use,


s: There springs a soap-like lather in his shoes.


s: In Den'shire Kersey Lusk, when he was dead,


s: When his assigns asked him the reason why,


s: He said, because he got his wealth thereby.


s: Rush saves his shoes in wet and snowy weather;


s: And fears in summer to wear out the leather;


s: This is strong thrift that wary Rush doth use


s: Summer and winter still to save his shoes.


s: Half-choked with the stink of her farting.


s: "Semper pauper eris, si pauper es, Aemiliane.


s: Cp. also Davison's Poet. Rhap., i. 95. Ed. Bullen.


s: In which the veins implanted seem to lie


s: So full of claret, that whoso pricks this vine


s: May see it spout forth streams like muscadine.


s: Twelve lines later, after "Riphean snow," comes a longer passage:


s: Or else that she in that white waxen hill


s: Hath seal'd the primrose of her utmost skill.


s: But now my muse hath spied a dark descent


s: From this so precious, pearly, permanent,


s: Unto the port-mouth of the Elysian fields:


s: A place desired of all, but got by these


s: Here's golden fruit, that doth exceed all price,


s: Above the entrance there is written this:


s: This is the portal to the bower of bliss,


s: Through midst whereof a crystal stream there flows


s: Passing the sweet sweet of a musky rose.


s: With plump, soft flesh, of metal pure and fine,


s: Resembling shields, both pure and crystalline.


s: Hence rise those two ambitious hills that look


s: Into th' middle, sweet, sight-stealing crook,


s: Which for the better beautifying shrouds


s: Its humble self 'twixt two aspiring clouds


s: Richer than that fair, precious, virtuous horn


s: The last four lines are joined on at the end of all:


s: Where beauty springs; and thus I kiss her foot.


s: An old, old widow, Greedy needs would wed, 383.


s: Bad are all surfeits; but physicians call, 403.


s: Bar close as you can, and bolt fast too your door, 380.


s: Batt he gets children, not for love to rear 'em, 379.


s: Bice laughs, when no man speaks; and doth protest, 399.


s: Blanch swears her husband's lovely; when a scald, 376.


s: Blisse, last night drunk, did kiss his mother's knee, 404.


s: Boreman takes toll, cheats, flatters, lies! yet Boreman, 406.


s: Broomsted a lameness got by cold and beer, 392.


s: Brown bread Tom Pennie eats, and must of right, 406.


s: Buggins is drunk all night, all day he sleeps, 406.


s: Bungy does fast; looks pale; puts sackcloth on, 382.


s: Burr is a smell-feast, and a man alone, 404.


s: Center is known weak sighted, and he sells, 386.


s: Cob clouts his shoes, and as the story tells, 396.


s: Cock calls his wife his hen; when cock goes to 't, 395.


s: Comely acts well; and when he speaks his part, 399.


s: Craw cracks in sirrop; and does stinking say, 388.


s: Crooked you are, but that dislikes not me, 381.


s: Cuffe comes to church much; but he keeps his bed, 377.


s: Curse not the mice, no grist of thine they eat, 384.


s: Dunridge his issue hath; but is not styl'd, 392.


s: Doll, she so soon began the wanton trade, 385.


s: E'en all religious courses to be rich, 399.


s: Eeles winds and turns, and cheats and steals; yet Eeles, 386.


s: Feacie, some say, doth wash her clothes i' th' lie, 390.


s: Fie, quoth my lady, what a stink is here, 395.


s: First, Jolly's wife is lame; then next loose-hip'd, 378.


s: Flood, if he has for him and his a bit, 409.


s: Fone says, those mighty whiskers he does wear, 377.


s: For ropes of pearl, first Madam Ursly shows, 397.


s: For thirty years Tubbs has been proud and poor, 405.


s: Franck ne'er wore silk she swears; but I reply, 394.


s: Franck would go scour her teeth; and setting to 't, 398.


s: Goes the world now, it will with thee go hard, 376.


s: Glasco had none, but now some teeth has got, 377.


s: Glass, out of deep, and out of desp'rate want, 386.


s: Groynes, for his fleshly burglary of late, 381.


s: Grubs loves his wife and children, while that they, 407.


s: Grudgings turns bread to stones, when to the poor, 395.


s: Gryll eats, but ne'er says grace: to speak the truth, 378.


s: Gubbs calls his children kitlings: and would bound, 380.


s: Guess cuts his shoes, and limping, goes about, 381.


s: Hanch, since he lately did inter his wife, 402.


s: Hog has a place i' th' kitchen, and his share, 407.


s: Horne sells to others teeth; but has not one, 394.


s: How could Luke Smeaton wear a shoe or boot, 398.


s: Huncks has no money, he does swear or say, 390.


s: I dream't this mortal part of mine, 375.


s: If felt and heard, unseen, thou dost me please, 408.


s: If thou dislik'st the piece thou light'st on first, 375.


s: If wounds in clothes, Cuts calls his rags, 'tis clear, 385.


s: I have seen many maidens to have hair, 393.


s: In Den'shire Kersey Lusk when he was dead, 409.


s: In's Tusc'lans, Tully doth confess, 409.


s: Is Zelot pure? he is: yet, see he wears, 397.


s: Joan would go tell her hairs; and well she might, 392.


s: Jolly and Jilly bite and scratch all day, 387.


s: Kissing and bussing differ both in this, 391.


s: Last night thou didst invite me home to eat, 388.


s: Letcher was carted first about the streets, 392.


s: Linnet plays rarely on the lute, we know, 385.


s: Long locks of late our zealot Peason wears, 402.


s: Leech boasts he has a pill, that can alone, 383.


s: Luggs, by the condemnation of the bench, 378.


s: Lulls swears he is all heart; but you'll suppose, 403.


s: Lungs, as some say, ne'er sets him down to eat, 396.


s: Lupes for the outside of his suit has paid, 405.


s: Maggot frequents those houses of good cheer, 391.


s: Mease brags of pullets which he eats; but Mease, 384.


s: Meg yesterday was troubled with a pose, 404.


s: Money thou ow'st me; prethee fix a day, 380.


s: Much-more provides and hoards up like an ant, 379.


s: Mudge every morning to the postern comes, 405.


s: Nis he makes verses; but the lines he writes, 403.


s: No question but Doll's cheeks would soon roast dry, 407.


s: Now Patrick with his footmanship has done, 387.


s: Of flanks and chines of beef doth Gorrell boast, 380.


s: Of four teeth only Bridget was possest, 387.


s: Of pushes Spalt has such a knotty race, 394.


s: Old Parson Beanes hunts six days of the week, 389.


s: Old Widow Prouse, to do her neighbours evil, 400.


s: Old Widow Shopter, whensoe'er she cries, 408.


s: Once on a Lord Mayor's day, in Cheapside, when, 392.


s: One silver spoon shines in the house of Croot, 408.


s: Pagget, a schoolboy, got a sword, and then, 378.


s: Parrat protests, 'tis he, and only he, 401.


s: Paske, though his debt be one upon the day, 384.


s: Paul's hands do give; what give they, bread or meat, 398.


s: Peapes, he does strut, and pick his teeth, as if, 401.


s: Pievish doth boast that he's the very first, 387.


s: Prickles is waspish, and puts forth his sting, 404.


s: Prigg, when he comes to houses oft doth use, 384.


s: Prig now drinks water, who before drank beer, 379.


s: Ralph pares his nails, his warts, his corns, and Ralph, 404.


s: Rasp plays at nine-holes; and 'tis known he gets, 386.


s: Reape's eyes so raw are that, it seems, the flies, 402.


s: Rook he sells feathers, yet he still doth cry, 389.


s: Root's had no money; yet he went o' the score, 388.


s: Rump is a turn-broach, yet he seldom can, 408.


s: Rush saves his shoes in wet and snowy weather, 409.


s: Science puffs up, says Gut, when either pease, 407.


s: Seal'd up with night-gum Loach, each morning lies, 400.


s: Shark when he goes to any public feast, 382.


s: Shift now has cast his clothes: got all things new, 385.


s: Sibb, when she saw her face how hard it was, 398.


s: Since Gander did his pretty youngling wed, 396.


s: Since Jack and Jill both wicked be, 389.


s: Skinns, he dined well to-day; how do you think, 386.


s: Skoles stinks so deadly, that his breeches loath, 396.


s: Skrew lives by shifts; yet swears by no small oaths, 385.


s: Skurf by his nine-bones swears, and well he may, 390.


s: Slouch he packs up, and goes to several fairs, 399.


s: Snare, ten i' th' hundred calls his wife; and why? 395.


s: Sneape has a face so brittle that it breaks, 383.


s: Spenke has a strong breath, yet short prayers saith, 403.


s: Spokes, when he sees a roasted pig, he swears, 405.


s: Spunge makes his boasts that he's the only man, 389.


s: Spur jingles now, and swears by no mean oaths, 408.


s: Strutt, once a foreman of a shop we knew, 378.


s: Sudds launders bands in piss, and starches them, 381.


s: Tap, better known than trusted as we hear, 401.


s: Teage has told lies so long that when Teage tells, 403.


s: That was the proverb. Let my mistress be, 383.


s: The eggs of pheasants wry-nosed Tooly sells, 393.


s: This lady's short, that mistress she is tall, 389.


s: To cleanse his eyes, Tom Brock makes much ado, 382.


s: To paint the fiend, Pink would the devil see, 381.


s: Thou writes in prose how sweet all virgins be, 400.


s: Tom Blinks his nose is full of weals, and these, 401.


s: Tom shifts the trenchers; yet he never can, 399.


s: Trigg, having turn'd his suit, he struts in state, 397.


s: Truggin a footman was; but now, grown lame, 403.


s: Umber was painting of a lion fierce, 393.


s: Unto Pastillus rank Gorgonius came, 407.


s: Up with the quintell, that the rout, 406.


s: Urles had the gout so, that he could not stand, 394.


s: We read how Faunus, he the shepherds' god, 406.


s: What are our patches, tatters, rags, and rents, 405.


s: What is the reason Coone so dully smells, 394.


s: What made that mirth last night, the neighbours say, 395.


s: When Jill complains to Jack for want of meat, 391.


s: When others gain much by the present cast, 385.


s: When Pimp's feet sweat, as they do often use, 409.


s: Wherever Nodes does in the summer come, 400.


s: Who to the north, or south, doth set, 388.


s: Who with thy leaves shall wipe, at need, 375.


s: Why walks Nick Flimsey like a malcontent! 387.


s: Wither'd with years, bed-rid Mamma lies, 380.


s: With paste of almonds, Syb her hands doth scour, 393.


s: Y'ave laughed enough, sweet, vary now your text, 382.


s: You say, you love me; that I thus must prove, 383.


s: You say you're young; but when your teeth are told, 390.


s: You say you'll kiss me, and I thank you for it, 394.


s: Page 318. Appendix I. "arious" corrected to _various_.


s: "... all the various articles spread throughout ..."


s: Page 382. 277. LAUGH AND DIE DOWN. "DIE" corrected to _LIE_.


s: _"The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again:


s: Through this same Garden after meâin vain!"_]


s: Spedding and J. M. Kemble. From there he went in 1826 to Trinity


s: Besides the works already mentioned, FitzGerald was the author of


s: For a while, when young, we frequented a teacher;


s: For a while we were contented with our proficiency;


s: Behold the foundation of the discourse!âwhat happened to us?


s: We came in like Water, and we depart like Wind.


s: In FitzGerald's version the verses appear thus:â


s: Doctor and Saint and heard great Argument


s: And with my own hand labour'd it to grow:


s: And this was all the Harvest that I reap'dâ


s: "I came like Water, and like Wind I go."


s: Similar examples may be found elsewhere, thus:â


s: From the Beginning was written what shall be


s: Unhaltingly the Pen writes, and is heedless of good and bad;


s: On the First Day He appointed everything that must be,


s: The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,


s: Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,


s: Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.


s: With me along some Strip of Herbage strown


s: That just divides the desert from the sown,


s: Where the name of Slave and SultÃ¡n scarce is known,


s: And pity SultÃ¡n MÃ¡hmÃºd on his Throne.


s: Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,


s: A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verseâand Thou


s: In a thousand places on the road I walk, thou placest snares.


s: Thou sayest: "I will catch thee if thou steppeth into them,"


s: In no smallest thing is the world independent of thee,


s: _Thou_ orderest all thingsâand callest _me_ rebellious!


s: majestically shaping into FitzGerald's rendering:â


s: Oh, Thou, who didst with Pitfall and with Gin


s: Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make


s: And who with Eden didst devise the Snake;


s: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man


s: Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness giveâand take!


s: The theory of reincarnation and that alone, can furnish a full


s: explanation of FitzGerald's splendid success as a translator.


s: theological dogmatists nor devil-worshippers, but men.


s: "'One of the greatest of the wise men of KhorassÃ¡n was the


s: ImÃ¡n Mowaffak of NaishÃ¡pÃºr, a man highly honoured and


s: reverenced,âmay God rejoice his soul; his illustrious years


s: exceeded eighty-five, and it was the universal belief that


s: every boy who read the Koran, or studied the traditions in his


s: presence, would assuredly attain to honour and happiness. For


s: this cause did my father send me from TÃºs to NaishÃ¡pÃºr with


s: Abd-u-samad, the doctor of law, that I might employ myself in


s: study and learning under the guidance of that illustrious


s: teacher. Towards me he ever turned an eye of favour and


s: kindness, and as his pupil I felt for him extreme affection


s: and devotion, so that I passed four years in his service. When


s: I first came there, I found two other pupils of mine own age


s: newly arrived, Hakim Omar KhayyÃ¡m and the ill-fated Ben


s: SabbÃ¡h. Both were endowed with sharpness of wit and the


s: highest natural powers; and we three formed a close friendship


s: together. When the ImÃ¡m rose from his lectures, they used to


s: join me, and we repeated to each other the lessons we had


s: heard. Now Omar was a native of NaishÃ¡pÃºr, while Hasan Ben


s: SabbÃ¡h's father was one Ali, a man of austere life and


s: practice, but heretical in his creed and doctrine. One day


s: Hasan said to me and to KhayyÃ¡m, "It is a universal belief


s: that the pupils of the ImÃ¡m Mowaffak will attain to fortune.


s: Now, if we _all_ do not attain thereto, without doubt one of


s: us will; what then shall be our mutual pledge and bond?" We


s: answered, "Be it what you please." "Well," he said, "let us


s: make a vow, that to whomsoever this fortune falls, he shall


s: share it equally with the rest, and reserve no pre-eminence


s: for himself." "Be it so," we both replied; and on those terms


s: we mutually pledged our words. Years rolled on, and I went


s: from KhorassÃ¡n to Transoxiana, and wandered to Ghazni and


s: Cabul; and when I returned, I was invested with office, and


s: rose to be administrator of affairs during the Sultanate of


s: "He goes on to state, that years passed by, and both his old


s: school-friends found him out, and came and claimed a share in


s: his good fortune according to the school-day vow. The Vizier


s: was generous and kept his word. Hasan demanded a place in the


s: government, which the Sultan granted at the Vizier's request;


s: but, discontented with a gradual rise, he plunged into the


s: maze of intrigue of an Oriental Court, and, failing in a base


s: attempt to supplant his benefactor, he was disgraced and fell.


s: After many mishaps and wanderings, Hasan became the head of


s: the Persian sect of the _IsmaÃlians_,âa party of fanatics who


s: had long murmured in obscurity, but rose to an evil eminence


s: he seized the castle of AlamÃºt, in the province of RÃºdbar,


s: which lies in the mountainous tract, south of the Caspian sea;


s: and it was from this mountain home he obtained that evil


s: celebrity among the Crusaders, as the OLD MAN OF THE


s: MOUNTAINS, and spread terror through the Mohammedan world; and


s: it is yet disputed whether the word _Assassin_, which they


s: have left in the language of modern Europe as their dark


s: memorial, is derived from the _hashish_, or opiate of


s: hemp-leaves (the Indian _bhang_), with which they maddened


s: themselves to the sullen pitch of oriental desperation, or


s: from the name of the founder of the dynasty, whom we have seen


s: in his quiet collegiate days, at NaishÃ¡pÃºr. One of the


s: countless victims of the Assassin's dagger was NizÃ¡m al Mulk


s: "Omar KhayyÃ¡m also came to the Vizier to claim his share; but


s: not to ask for title or office. 'The greatest boon you can


s: confer on me,' he said, 'is to let me live in a corner under


s: the shadow of your fortune, to spread wide the advantages of


s: Science, and pray for your long life and prosperity.' The


s: Vizier tells us, that when he found Omar was really sincere


s: in his refusal, he pressed him no further, but granted him a


s: yearly pension of 1,200 _mithkÃ¡ls_ of gold from the treasury


s: "At NaishÃ¡pÃºr thus lived and died Omar KhayyÃ¡m, 'busied,' adds


s: especially in Astronomy, wherein he attained to a very high


s: pre-eminence. Under the Sultanate of Malik Shah, he came to


s: Merv, and obtained great praise for his proficiency in


s: science, and the Sultan showered favours upon him.'


s: "When Malik Shah determined to reform the calendar, Omar was


s: one of the eight learned men employed to do it; the result was


s: the _JalÃ¡li_ era (so-called from _Jalal-ul-Din_, one of the


s: king's names)â'a computation of time,' says Gibbon, 'which


s: surpasses the Julian, and approaches the accuracy of the


s: Gregorian style.' He is also the author of some astronomical


s: tables, entitled 'ZÃji-MalikshÃ¡hÃ,' and the French have lately


s: "These severe Studies, and his verses, which, though happily


s: fewer than any Persian Poet's, and, though perhaps fugitively


s: composed, the Result of no fugitive Emotion or Thought, are


s: probably the Work and Event of his Life, leaving little else


s: to record. Perhaps he liked a little Farming too, so often as


s: he speaks of the 'Edge of the Tilth' on which he loved to rest


s: with his DiwÃ¡n of Verse, his Loafâand his Wine.


s: "His Takhallus or poetical name (KhayyÃ¡m) signifies a


s: Tent-maker, and he is said to have at one time exercised that


s: trade, perhaps before NizÃ¡m al Mulk's generosity raised him to


s: independence. Many Persian poets similarly derive their names


s: from their occupations: thus we have AttÃ¡r 'a druggist,' AssÃ¡r


s: 'an oil presser,' etc. Omar himself alludes to his name in the


s: "'KhayyÃ¡m, who stitched the tents of science,


s: Has fallen in grief's furnace and been suddenly burned;


s: The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life,


s: And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing!'


s: "We have only one more anecdote to give of his Life, and that


s: relates to the close; related in the anonymous preface which


s: is sometimes prefixed to his poems; it has been printed in the


s: Persian in the appendix to Hyde's _Veterum Persarum Religio_,


s: p. 449; and D'Herbelot alludes to it in his BibliothÃ©que,


s: "'It is written in the chronicles of the ancients that this


s: King of the Wise, Omar KhayyÃ¡m, died at NaishÃ¡pÃºr in the year


s: unrivalled,âthe very paragon of his age. KhwÃ¡jah NizÃ¡mi of


s: Samarcand, who was one of his pupils, relates the following


s: story: "I often used to hold conversation with my teacher,


s: Omar KhayyÃ¡m, in a garden; and one day he said to me, 'My tomb


s: shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over


s: it.' I wondered at the words he spake, but I knew that his


s: were no idle words. Years after, when I chanced to revisit


s: NaishÃ¡pÃºr I went to his final resting place, and lo! it was


s: just outside a garden, and trees laden with fruit stretched


s: their boughs over the garden wall, and dropped their flowers


s: upon his tomb, so as the stone was hidden under them."'"


s: Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:


s: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught


s: The SultÃ¡n's Turret in a Noose of Light.


s: Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky,


s: "Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup


s: Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."


s: And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before


s: You know how little while we have to stay,


s: And, once departed, may return no more."


s: The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,


s: Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.


s: And JamshÃ½d's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows:


s: But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields,


s: And David's Lips are lockt; but in divine


s: High-piping PÃ©hlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!


s: _Red_ Wine!"âthe Nightingale cries to the Rose


s: That yellow Cheek of hers to incarnadine.


s: Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring


s: And lookâa thousand blossoms with the Day


s: Wokeâand a thousand scatter'd into Clay:


s: And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose


s: But come with old KhayyÃ¡m and leave the Lot


s: With me along some Strip of Herbage strown


s: That just divides the desert from the sown,


s: Where name of Slave and SultÃ¡n scarce is known,


s: And pity SultÃ¡n MÃ¡hmÃºd on his Throne.


s: Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,


s: A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verseâand Thou


s: "How sweet is mortal Sovranty"âthink some:


s: Othersâ"How blest the Paradise to come!"


s: Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest;


s: Oh, the brave Music of a _distant_ Drum!


s: Look to the Rose that blows about usâ"Lo,


s: Laughing," she says, "into the World I blow:


s: Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw."


s: The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon


s: And those who husbanded the Golden Grain,


s: And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain,


s: Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd


s: Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day,


s: The Courts where JamshÃ½d gloried and drank deep:


s: And BahrÃ¡m, that great Hunterâthe Wild Ass


s: Stamps o'er his Head, and he lies fast asleep.


s: I sometimes think that never blows so red


s: The Rose as where some buried CÃ¦sar bled;


s: Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head.


s: And this delightful Herb whose tender Green


s: Fledges the River's Lip on which we leanâ


s: From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen!


s: Ah, my BelovÃ©d, fill the cup that clears


s: To-day of past Regrets and future Fearsâ


s: Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.


s: Lo! some we loved, the loveliest and the best


s: That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest,


s: Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,


s: They left, and Summer dresses in new Bloom,


s: Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth


s: Descend, ourselves to make a Couchâfor whom?


s: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,


s: Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, andâsans End!


s: A MuezzÃn from the Tower of Darkness cries,


s: "Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There!"


s: Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd


s: Of the Two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust


s: Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn


s: Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.


s: Oh, come with old KhayyÃ¡m, and leave the Wise


s: To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;


s: One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;


s: The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.


s: Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument


s: And with my own hand labour'd it to grow:


s: And this was all the Harvest that I reap'dâ


s: "I came like Water, and like Wind I go."


s: Into this Universe, and _why_ not knowing,


s: Nor _whence_, like Water willy-nilly flowing:


s: I know not _whither_, willy-nilly blowing.


s: What, without asking, hither hurried _whence_?


s: And, without asking, _whither_ hurried hence!


s: Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate


s: I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,


s: There was a Door to which I found no Key:


s: There was a Veil past which I could not see:


s: There seemedâand then no more of Thee and Me.


s: Then to the rolling Heav'n itself I cried,


s: Her little Children stumbling in the Dark?"


s: Andâ"A blind Understanding!" Heav'n replied.


s: My Lip the secret Well of Life to learn:


s: And Lip to Lip it murmur'dâ"While you live


s: Drink!âfor once dead you never shall return."


s: And merry-make; and the cold Lip I kiss'd


s: For in the Market-place, one Dusk of Day,


s: I watch'd the Potter thumping his wet Clay:


s: It murmur'dâ"Gently, Brother, gently, pray!"


s: Ah, fill the Cup:âwhat boots it to repeat


s: How Time is slipping underneath our Feet:


s: One Moment, of the Well of Life to tasteâ


s: Starts for the Dawn of NothingâOh, make haste!


s: Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.


s: You know, my Friends, how long since in my House


s: And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.


s: For "Is" and "Is-not" though _with_ Rule and Line,


s: And "Up-and-down" _without_, I could define,


s: Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape


s: He bid me taste of it; and 'twasâthe Grape!


s: The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:


s: Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute.


s: The mighty MÃ¡hmÃºd, the victorious Lord


s: That all the misbelieving and black Horde


s: Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul


s: Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword.


s: But leave the Wise to wrangle, and with me


s: And, in some corner of the Hubbub coucht,


s: Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee.


s: Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,


s: Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.


s: And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press,


s: End in the Nothing all Things end inâYesâ


s: Then fancy while Thou art, Thou art but what


s: Thou shalt beâNothingâThou shalt not be less.


s: While the Rose blows along the River Brink,


s: With old KhayyÃ¡m the Ruby Vintage drink;


s: And when the Angel with his darker Draught


s: Draws up to Theeâtake that, and do not shrink.


s: 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days,


s: Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:


s: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,


s: The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes,


s: But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes;


s: And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field,


s: _He_ knows about it allâHe knowsâHE knows!


s: The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,


s: Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,


s: Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.


s: Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,


s: Lift not thy hands to _It_ for helpâfor It


s: With Earth's first Clay They did the last Man's knead,


s: And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:


s: Yea, the first Morning of Creation wrote


s: What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.


s: I tell Thee thisâWhen, starting from the Goal,


s: Of Heav'n ParwÃn and Mushtara they flung,


s: In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul.


s: The Vine had struck a Fibre; which about


s: That shall unlock the Door he howls without.


s: And this I know: whether the one True Light


s: Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,


s: One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught


s: Better than in the Temple lost outright.


s: Oh, Thou, who didst with Pitfall and with Gin


s: Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make


s: And who with Eden didst devise the Snake:


s: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man


s: Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness giveâand take!


s: And, strange to tell, among that Earthern Lot


s: Some could articulate, while others not:


s: "Who _is_ the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?"


s: My substance from the common Earth was ta'en,


s: That He who subtly wrought me into Shape


s: Should stamp me back to common Earth again."


s: Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy;


s: Shall He that _made_ the Vessel in pure Love


s: None answer'd this; but after Silence spake


s: What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?"


s: Said oneâ"Folks of a surly Tapster tell,


s: And daub his Visage with the Smoke of Hell;


s: They talk of some strict Testing of usâPish!


s: He's a Good Fellow, and 'twill all be well."


s: Then said another with a long-drawn Sigh,


s: "My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry:


s: But, fill me with the old familiar Juice,


s: So while the Vessels one by one were speaking,


s: One spied the little Crescent all were seeking:


s: And then they jogg'd each other, "Brother! Brother!


s: Hark to the Porter's Shoulder-knot a-creaking!"


s: Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide,


s: And wash my Body whence the Life has died,


s: And in a Winding-sheet of Vine-leaf wrapt,


s: Have done my Credit in Men's Eye much wrong!


s: Have drown'd my Honour in a shallow Cup,


s: And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand


s: And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel,


s: And robb'd me of my Robe of Honourâwell,


s: One half so precious as the Goods they sell.


s: Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!


s: That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!


s: The Nightingale that in the Branches sang,


s: Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!


s: Ah, Love! could you and I with Fate conspire


s: To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,


s: Would not we shatter it to bitsâand then


s: Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!


s: Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane,


s: The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again:


s: Through this same Garden after meâin vain!


s: And when Thyself with shining Foot shalt pass


s: Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass,


s: Where I made oneâturn down an empty Glass!


s: Oh Thou whose Memory quickens Lovers' Souls,


s: Whose Fount of Joy renews the Lover's Tongue,


s: Thy Shadow falls across the World, and They


s: Bow down to it; and of the Rich in Beauty


s: Thou art the Riches that make Lovers mad.


s: Not till thy Secret Beauty through the Cheek


s: Of Laila smite does she inflame MajnÃºn,


s: And not till Thou have sugar'd ShÃrÃn's Lip


s: The Hearts of those Two Lovers fill with Blood.


s: For Lov'd and Lover are not but by Thee,


s: Thy Heavenly hides behind, and from itself


s: Feeds, and our Hearts yearn after as a Bride


s: As none the Beauty from the Veil may know.


s: How long wilt thou continue thus the World


s: From which Thou only peepest?âTime it is


s: To unfold thy perfect Beauty. I would be


s: Seal'd in the Light of Thee to all but Thee,


s: Self-Lost, and Conscience-quit of Good and Evil.


s: Thou movest under all the Forms of Truth,


s: Look whence I will, still nothing I discern


s: Thyself Thou dost invest, and through the Eyes


s: No Entrance findsâno Word of This and That;


s: Make one with Thy Essential! Leave me room


s: On that DivÃ¡n which leaves no Room for Two;


s: Lest, like the Simple Kurd of whom they tell,


s: I grow perplext, Oh God! 'twixt "I" and "Thou;"


s: If Thouâthen what this abject Impotence?


s: Fain would go to Sleep; "But," saith he,


s: And turns to Sleep. A Knave that heard him


s: Than any Kurd more helpless!âOh, do thou


s: Strike down a Ray of Light into my Darkness!


s: Turn by thy Grace these Dregs into pure Wine,


s: And yet how long, JÃ¡mi, in this Old House


s: Stringing thy Pearls upon a Harp of Song?


s: Year after Year striking up some new Song,


s: The Breath of some Old Story? Life is gone,


s: And I, whose Back is crookÃ©d as the Harp


s: I still keep tuning through the Night till Day!


s: That Harp untun'd by Timeâthe Harper's hand


s: Shaking with Ageâhow shall the Harper's hand


s: Repair its cunning, and the sweet old Harp


s: 'Tis time to break and cast it in the Fire;


s: Yea, sweet the Harp that can be sweet no more,


s: To cast it in the Fireâthe vain old Harp


s: That can no more sound Sweetness to the Ear,


s: But burn'd may breathe sweet Attar to the Soul,


s: My Teeth fall outâmy two Eyes see no more


s: Till by Feringhi Glasses turn'd to Four;


s: Pain sits with me sitting behind my knees,


s: From which I hardly rise unhelpt of hand;


s: Yearn, as is likely, to my Mother Earth,


s: With whom I soon shall cease to moan and weep,


s: No more within, nor at the Door of Speech,


s: What that Beloved to the Master whisper'd:â


s: "No longer think of Rhyme, but think of Me!"â


s: Of Whom?âof Him whose Palace The Soul is,


s: And Treasure-Houseâwho notices and knows


s: Its Incomes and Out-going, and _then_ comes


s: To fill it when the Stranger is departed.


s: Whose Shadowâbeing Kingsâwhose Attributes


s: The Type of Theirsâtheir Wrath and Favour Hisâ


s: Wherefore once more I takeâbest quitted elseâ


s: The Field of Verse, to chaunt that double Praise,


s: Until I grasp the Skirt of Living Presence.


s: When Night had thus far brought me with my Book,


s: In middle Thought Sleep robb'd me of myself;


s: A Road whose spotless Surface neither Breeze


s: Lifted in Dust, nor mix'd the Rain to Mire.


s: There I, methought, was pacing tranquilly,


s: And took away my Wit and Strength for Fear.


s: Turn'd his Rein tow'rd me, and with smiling Lips


s: Open'd before my Eyes the Door of Peace.


s: Then, riding up to me, dismounted; kiss'd


s: How glad of his Protection, and the Grace


s: He gave it with!âWho then of gracious Speech


s: Not one that in my Ear till Morning hung.


s: I question'd what the Vision meant, it answered;


s: Foreshadows the fair Acceptance of thy Verse,


s: Which lose no moment pushing to Conclusion."


s: To steady Writing; for perchance, I thought,


s: From the same Fountain whence the Vision grew


s: Until Thou hast thy Purpose by the Hilt,


s: A Shah there was who ruled the Realm of YÃºn,


s: And wore the Ring of Empire of Sikander;


s: That Wise Men from all Quarters of the World


s: To catch the Word of Wisdom from his Lip


s: Went in a Girdle round himâWhich The Shah


s: Stirr'd not a Step nor set Design a-foot


s: Without that Sage's sanction; till so counsel'd,


s: No Nation of the World or Nation's Chief


s: Bow'd down the Neck; then rising up in Peace


s: Under his Justice grew, and knew no Wrong,


s: And in their Strength was his Dominion Strong.


s: The Shah that has not Wisdom in Himself,


s: "_Better just KÃ¡fir than Believing Tyrant_."


s: One Night The Shah of YÃºnan, as his wont,


s: Consider'd of his Power, and told his State,


s: Then found he nothing wanted to his Heart,


s: And then he turn'd him to The Shah and said;


s: "Oh Thou, whose Wisdom is the Rule of Kingsâ


s: Man's prime Desire; by which his Name and He


s: Shall live beyond Himself; by whom his Eyes


s: Shine living, and his Dust with Roses blows;


s: A Foot for Thee to stand on, he shall be


s: A Hand to stop thy Falling; in his Youth


s: Thou shall be Young, and in his Strength be Strong;


s: His Voice shall cheer his Friends to Plight,


s: And turn the Foeman's Glory into Flight."


s: Thus much of a Good Son, whose wholesome Growth


s: Approves the Root he grew from; but for one


s: Him and his Vices from the String of Time.


s: Like Noah's, puff'd with Ignorance and Pride,


s: Who felt the Stab of "He is none of Thine!"


s: All are not Good, be slow to pray for One


s: Whom having you may have to pray to lose.


s: Had heard these sayings of The Shah, he said,


s: "Oh Shah, who would not be the Slave of Lust


s: âLust that makes blind the Reason; Lust that makes


s: A Cataract that, carrying havoc with it,


s: Confounds the prosperous House; a Road of Mire


s: A Wine of which whoever tastes shall see


s: Redemption's face no moreâone little Sip


s: Making crave much, and hanging round the Palate


s: (Putting the rope in a Vain Woman's hand),


s: Till thou thyself go down the Way of Nothing.


s: For what is Woman? A Foolish, Faithless Thingâ


s: To whom The Wise Self-subjected, himself


s: Deep sinks beneath the Folly he sets up.


s: Her Garment with Brocade of Susa braided,


s: Her very Night-gear wrought in Cloth of Gold,


s: Dangle her Ears with Ruby and with Pearl,


s: Her House with Golden Vessels all a-blaze,


s: Her Tables loaded with the Fruit of Kings,


s: One little twist of Temper,âall you've done


s: She cries, 'What have you ever done for me!'â


s: Her Brow's white TabletâYesâ'tis uninscrib'd


s: Who ever read it there? Lo, in your Bosom


s: She lies for Yearsâyou turn away a moment,


s: And she forgets youâworse, if as you turn


s: Her Eye should light on any Younger Lover."


s: The Hearts of Both were turn'd to Truth,


s: "If this, as wise FerdÃºsi says, the Curse


s: Of Better Women, what should be the Worse?"


s: Leaguing, its Self-fulfilment wrought from Heaven.


s: And Lo! from Darkness came to Light A Child


s: A Perfume from the Realm of Wisdom wafted;


s: Under whose Augury triumph'd the Throne.


s: For whose Auspicious Name they clove the Words


s: And "AusemÃ¡n"âthe Heav'n from which he cameâ


s: And hail'd him by the title of SalÃ¡mÃ¡n.


s: And whereas from no Mother Milk he drew,


s: They chose for him a Nurseâher Name AbsÃ¡lâ


s: Her Years not Twentyâfrom the Silver Line


s: Down to her Foot that trampled Crowns of Kings,


s: Should carry in the Garment of her Bounty,


s: Should feed him with the Flowing of her Breast.


s: She closed those Eyes to all the World beside,


s: Opening and shutting which her Day's Delight,


s: To gaze upon his Heart-inflaming Cheek,â


s: Upon the Darling whom, could she, she would


s: In Rose and Musk she wash'd himâto his Lips


s: Press'd the pure Sugar from the Honeycomb;


s: And when, Day over, she withdrew her Milk,


s: She made, and having laid him in, his Bed,


s: Burn'd all Night like a Taper o'er his Head.


s: Then still as Morning came, and as he grew,


s: On with his Robeâwith fresh Collyrium Dew


s: Touch'd his Narcissus Eyesâthe Musky Locks


s: With Gold and Ruby Girdle his fine Waist.â


s: So rear'd she him till full Fourteen his Years,


s: Fourteen-day full the Beauty of his Face,


s: That rode high in a Hundred Thousand Hearts;


s: Yea, when SalÃ¡mÃ¡n was but Half-lance high,


s: Lance-like he struck a wound in every One,


s: And burn'd and shook down Splendour like a Sun.


s: Soon as the Lord of Heav'n had sprung his Horse


s: SalÃ¡mÃ¡n rose drunk with the Wine of Sleep,


s: And set himself a-stirrup for the Field;


s: Kings too in the Kingdom-troubling Tribe of Beauty,


s: All Young in Years and Courage, Bat in hand


s: Gallop'd a-field, toss'd down the Golden Ball


s: And chased, so many Crescent Moons a Full;


s: SalÃ¡mÃ¡n still would carry from them all


s: The Prize, and shouting "HÃ¡l!" drive Home the Ball.


s: To Shootingâfrom the Marksmen of the World


s: Call'd for an unstrung Bowâhimself the Cord


s: Fitted unhelpt, and nimbly with his hand


s: Twanging made cry, and drew it to his Ear:


s: Then, fixing the Three-feather'd Fowl, discharged.


s: No point in Heaven's Azure but his Arrow


s: Hit; nay, but Heaven were made of Adamant,


s: Would overtake the Horizon as it roll'd;


s: Or Bird on the wing, his Arrow went away


s: Straightâlike the Soul that cannot go astray.


s: When Night came, that releases man from Toil,


s: He play'd the Chess of Social Intercourse;


s: Prepared his Banquet Hall like Paradise,


s: And, when his Brain grew warm with Wine, the Veil


s: Concerting with the Singer he would breathe


s: Men's Ears with Sweetness: Taking up a Harp,


s: Between its dry String and his Finger fresh


s: Struck Fire; or lifting in his arms a Lute


s: Pinching its Ear such Cries of Sorrow wrung


s: And thus with his Associates Night he spent.


s: His Soul rejoiced in Knowledge of all kinds;


s: The fine Edge of his Wit would split a Hair,


s: His Verse was like the Pleiads; his Discourse


s: (Tablet and running Reed his Worshippers,)


s: Drove Penmen, as that Lovers, to Despair.


s: His Bounty was as Ocean'sânay, the Sea's


s: For it threw up the Shell, but he the Pearl;


s: He was a Cloud that rain'd upon the World


s: Dirhems for Drops; the Banquet of whose Bounty


s: Whose Throne, not grounded in the Eternal World,


s: Yesterday was, To-day is not!" I answer'd;


s: Both Was and Is To-day; to whose FirmÃ¡n


s: The Seven Kingdoms of the World are subject,


s: And the Seas Seven but droppings of his Largess.


s: Taught us to veil the Praises of a Power


s: To which the Initiate scarce find open Door."


s: Now was SalÃ¡mÃ¡n in his Prime of Growth,


s: And the new-blooming Garden of his Beauty


s: Began to bear; and AbsÃ¡l long'd to gather;


s: But the Fruit grew upon too high a Bough,


s: To which the Noose of her Desire was short.


s: Now from her Hair would twine a musky Chain,


s: To bind his Heartânow twist it into Curls


s: Doubled the Darkness of her Eyes with Surma


s: Adorn'd the Bows that were to shoot him then;


s: Now to the Rose-leaf of her Cheek would add


s: Fresh Rose, and then a Grain of Musk lay there,


s: The Bird of the BelovÃ©d Heart to snare.


s: Now with a Laugh would break the Ruby Seal


s: That lockt up Pearl; or busied in the Room


s: Would smite her Hand perhapsâon that pretence


s: To lift and show the Silver in her Sleeve;


s: Or hastily rising clash her Golden Anclets


s: To draw the CrownÃ©d Head under her Feet.


s: Which she would scarce let lose her for a Moment;


s: For well she knew that mainly by the Eye


s: Love makes his Sign, and by no other Road


s: Enters and takes possession of the Heart.


s: His Hand, and dropt the Skirt of Fortune.


s: Thus day by day did AbsÃ¡l tempt SalÃ¡mÃ¡n,


s: Her Eyes Narcissus stole his sleepâtheir Lashes


s: Pierc'd to his Heartâout from her Locks a Snake


s: Bit himâand bitter, bitter on his Tongue


s: He saw the Ringlet restless on her Cheek,


s: And he too quiver'd with Desire; his Tears


s: Turn'd Crimson from her Cheek, whose musky spot


s: Love drew him from behind the Veil, where yet


s: "Oh, should the Food I long for, tasted, turn


s: Should sicken from one momentary Sweet!"


s: Now when SalÃ¡mÃ¡n's Heart turn'd to AbsÃ¡l,


s: Her Star was happy in the HeavensâOld Love


s: Put forth afreshâDesire doubled his Bond:


s: And of the running Time she watch'd an Hour


s: And the Hour came; she stole into his Chamberâ


s: Ran up to him, Life's offer in her Handâ


s: She laid her Face beneath. SalÃ¡mÃ¡n then


s: Put forth his Handâhe rais'd her in his Armsâ


s: He held her trembling thereâand from that Fount


s: Drew first Desire; then Deeper from her Lips,


s: A Wine that ever drawn from never fail'dâ


s: So through the Dayâso through another stillâ


s: The Day became a Seventhâthe Seventh a Moonâ


s: The Moon a Yearâwhile they rejoiced together,


s: Thinking their pleasure never was to end.


s: But rolling Heaven whisper'd from his Ambush,


s: At Morning and before the Nightfall break;


s: Ah for the Bliss that with the Setting Sun


s: I mix, and, with his Rising, all is done!"


s: While a Full Year was counted by the Moon,


s: And for so long he stood not in the face


s: Of Sage or Shah, and their bereavÃ©d Hearts


s: Were torn in twain with the Desire of Him.


s: They question'd those about him, and from them


s: Heard something; then Himself in Presence summon'd,


s: And, subtly sifting on all sides, so plied


s: And all the Truth was told. Then Sage and Shah


s: Struck out with Hand and Foot in his Redress.


s: And First with Reason, which is also Best;


s: Reason that rights the Retrogradeâcompletes


s: The ImperfectâReason that unties the Knot:


s: From which the Prophets drew, and none beside.


s: There are no other Prophets than The Wise.


s: First spoke The Shah;â"SalÃ¡mÃ¡n, Oh my Soul,


s: And making bloom the Court of Hope with Rose;


s: Years Rose-bud-like my own Blood I devour'd


s: Till in my hand I carried thee, my Rose;


s: Nor wound thy Father with a Dagger Thorn.


s: Years for thy sake the Crown has worn my Brow,


s: And Years my Foot been growing to the Throne


s: Only for TheeâOh spurn them not with Thine;


s: To mount and manage Rakhsh along the Field;


s: Not, with no stouter weapon than a Love-lock,


s: Go, flash thy Steel among the Ranks of Men,


s: And smite the Warriors' Necks; not, flying them,


s: Lay down thine own beneath a Woman's Foot,


s: Leave off such doing in the Name of God,


s: Nor bring thy Father weeping to the Ground;


s: For TheeâOh Shame if thou prepare my Fall!"


s: "Wretch!âThere was a Branch that, waxing


s: The Branchâand barren was brought down!"


s: SalÃ¡mÃ¡n heardâthe Sea of his Soul was mov'd,


s: I _think_, my Soul relapsesâand when _look_â


s: I leave both Worlds behind to follow her!"


s: The Shah ceased Counsel, and the Sage began.


s: Who read'st the Seven and Four; interpretest


s: The writing on the Leaves of Night and Dayâ


s: (Know thine own Dignity and slight it not,


s: For Thou art Greater yet than all I tell)â


s: The Mighty Hand that mix'd thy Dust inscribed


s: And turn the Mirror of the Soul to Spirit,


s: Drown'd in the Light of Intellectual Truth.


s: Oh veil thine Eyes from Mortal Paramour,


s: And follow not her Step!âFor what is She?â


s: For such Pollution madden not thine Eyes,


s: Waste not thy Body's Strength, nor taint thy Soul,


s: Thy Star upon the Top of Heaven; but Lust


s: When from The Sage these words SalÃ¡mÃ¡n heard,


s: The breath of Wisdom round his Palate blew;


s: He saidâ"Oh Darling of the Soul of Plato,


s: Whose every word I find a Well of Wisdom,


s: That Choice is not within OneselfâTo Do,


s: How shall I swerve? or how put forth a Sign


s: Beyond the Power that is by Nature Mine?"


s: To Love whose only Friendship is Reproof,


s: Grows stubborn, and increases the Disease.


s: Reproved, is Feeding on one's own Heart's Blood.


s: SalÃ¡mÃ¡n heard; his Soul came to his Lips;


s: Reproaches struck not AbsÃ¡l out of him,


s: The Drinking of the sweet Draught of Delight,


s: And wan'd the Splendour of his Moon of Beauty.


s: Bled from the Arrow, and his Anguish grewâ


s: From Wound on Wound no remedy but Flight;


s: Resolv'd on that, he victuall'd and equipp'd


s: And True Love murmurs not, however small


s: His Chamberânay, the straitest best of all.


s: And then Remembrance of foregone Reproach


s: That, reaching its Circumference from KÃ¡f


s: To KÃ¡f, down to the Back of Gau and Mahi


s: Descended, and its Stars were Creatures' Eyes.


s: Of moving Mountains; or as endless Hosts


s: Of Camels trooping from all Quarters up,


s: But for an Instant visible, glancing through


s: As Silver Scissors slice a blue Brocade;


s: Though were the Dragon from its Hollow roused,


s: The Dragon of the Stars would stare Aghast.


s: To cross itâand forthwith upon the Shore


s: Wherein that Sun and Moon in happy Hour,


s: That, figured like a Bow, but Arrow-like


s: In Flight, was feather'd with a little Sail,


s: When they had sail'd their Vessel for a Moon,


s: And marr'd their Beauty with the wind o' th' Sea,


s: Of Note or Plume in all the World but there;


s: And those who tuned their Bills among the Trees


s: With any Breath of Air Fruit moist and dry


s: Down scatter'd in Profusion to their Feet,


s: Where Fountains of Sweet Water ran, and round


s: Sunshine and Shadow chequer-chased the Ground.


s: Of Audit, lifted from her Face the Veil.


s: SalÃ¡mÃ¡n saw the Isle, and thought no more


s: Of Furtherâthere with AbsÃ¡l he sat down,


s: They sleptâthey drank its Fountains hand in handâ


s: Sought Sugar with the Parrotâor in Sport


s: Paraded with the Peacockâraced the Partridgeâ


s: There was the Rose without a Thorn, and there


s: What sweeter than your Mistress at your side


s: Of that Soul-wasting absence of his Son,


s: He reach'd a Cry to Heav'nâhis Eyelashes


s: Wept BloodâSearch everywhere he set a-foot,


s: Then bade he bring a Mirror that he had,


s: Reflecting all the World, and lifting up


s: The Veil from all its Secret, Good and Evil.


s: That Mirror bade he bring, and, in its Face


s: Turn'd from the World, and all its ways, and People,


s: The Shah beheld them as they were, and Pity


s: Fell on his Eyes, and he reproach'd them not;


s: And, gathering all their Life into his Hand,


s: Not a Thread lost, disposed in Order all.


s: That, seeing Two who draw one Breath together


s: Is loath their sweet Communion to destroy,


s: The Arrows that assail the Lords of Sorrow


s: Do Well, that in thy Turn Well may betide Thee;


s: And turn from Ill, that Ill may turn beside Thee.


s: But as the days went on, and still The Shah


s: And yet no Hand of better Effort lifted;


s: But still the Crown that shall adorn his Head,


s: And still the Throne that waited for his Foot,


s: Of which the Soul was still unsatisfiedâ


s: Then from the Sorrow of The Shah fell Fire;


s: And, quite to shatter his rebellious Lust,


s: And Lo! SalÃ¡mÃ¡n to his Mistress turn'd,


s: But could not reach herâlook'd and look'd again,


s: Than Gold he cannot reach! To one Athirst


s: Than Fountain to the Eye and Lip forbid!â


s: Or than Heaven opened to the Eyes in Hell!â


s: Yet, when SalÃ¡mÃ¡n's Anguish was extreme,


s: He saw and knew his Father's Hand outstretcht


s: Timidly tow'rd his Father's Face his own


s: He lifted, Pardon-pleading, Crime-confest,


s: As the stray Bird one day will find her Nest.


s: When The Shah saw SalÃ¡mÃ¡n's face again,


s: And breath'd the Breath of Reconciliation,


s: He laid the Hand of Love upon his Shoulder,


s: The Kiss of Welcome on his Cheek, and said,


s: "Oh Thou, who lost, Love's Banquet lost its Salt,


s: Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.


s: Thy Kingdom is the Kingdom of the World!â


s: Lo! Throne and Crown await TheeâThrone and Crown


s: Not to be stamp'd by one not worthy Them;


s: Behold! The Rebel's Face is at thy Door;


s: Let him not triumphâlet the Wicked dread


s: The Throne under thy Feet, the Crown upon thy Head.


s: Oh Spurn them not behind Thee! Oh my Son,


s: Wipe Thou the Woman's Henna from thy Hand:


s: Withdraw Thee from the Minion who from Thee


s: Dominion draws; the Time is come to choose,


s: Thy Mistress or the World to hold or lose."


s: Wise Headâclean Heartâstrong Armâand open Hand.


s: Nor Valiant, who submits to a weak Woman;


s: From that in which so basely he is busied.


s: Ah the poor Lover!âIn the changing Hands


s: But reaches himâone Dagger at his Throat,


s: Of Lovingâand, scarce stauncht the Blood of Shame


s: By flying from his Loveâthen, worst of all,


s: Love's back-blow of Revenge for having fled!


s: SalÃ¡mÃ¡n heardâhe rent the Robe of Peaceâ


s: He came to loathe his Life, and long for Death,


s: (For better Death itself than Life in Death)â


s: He turn'd his face with AbsÃ¡l to the Desertâ


s: Enter'd the deadly Plain; Branch upon Branch


s: And fired. They look'd upon the Flames, those Twoâ


s: They look'd, and they rejoiced; and hand in hand


s: They sprang into the Fire. The Shah who saw


s: In secret all had order'd; and the Flame,


s: SalÃ¡mÃ¡n harmlessâthe pure Gold return'd


s: Heaven's Dome is but a wondrous House of Sorrow,


s: When first they mix'd the Clay of Man, and cloth'd


s: Rain Sorrows over him from Head to Foot;


s: And when the Forty Mornings pass'd to Night,


s: Then came one Morning-Showerâone Morning-Shower


s: And though the better Fortune came at last


s: To seal the Work, yet every Wise Man knows


s: SalÃ¡mÃ¡n fired the Pile; and in the Flame


s: That, passing him, consumed AbsÃ¡l like Straw,


s: Died his Divided Self, and there survived


s: From which the Soul is parted, all alone.


s: Then rose his Cry to Heavenâhis Eyelashes


s: Dropt Bloodâhis Sighs stood like a Smoke in Heaven,


s: And Morning rent her Garment at his Anguish.


s: He tore his Bosom with his Nailsâhe smote


s: Stone on his Bosomâlooking then on hands


s: He tore them with his Teeth. And when came Night,


s: And communed with the Fantom of his Love.


s: "Oh Thou whose Presence so long sooth'd my Soul,


s: Now burnt with thy Remembrance! Oh so long


s: The Light that fed these Eyes now dark with Tears!


s: Oh Long, Long Home of Love now lost for Ever!


s: No Road to reach us, nor an Eye to watchâ


s: All Day we whisper'd in each other's Ears,


s: All Night we slept in one another's Armsâ


s: All seem'd to our Desire, as if the Hand


s: Of unjust Fortune were for once too short.


s: Oh would to God that when I lit the Pyre


s: The Flame had left Thee Living and me Dead,


s: Not Living worse than Dead, depriv'd of Thee!


s: When in this Plight The Shah SalÃ¡mÃ¡n saw,


s: His Soul was struck with Anguish, and the Vein


s: He knew not. Then he turn'd him to The Sageâ


s: I cannot bring back Her, nor comfort Him.


s: Lo, I have said! My Sorrow is before Thee;


s: From thy far-reaching Wisdom help Thou Me


s: "Oh Thou that err'st not from the Road of Right,


s: If but SalÃ¡mÃ¡n have not broke my Bond,


s: Nor lies beyond the Noose of my FirmÃ¡n,


s: He quickly shall unload his Heart to me,


s: Then The Sage counsell'd, and SalÃ¡mÃ¡n heard,


s: And drew the Wisdom down into his Heart;


s: And, sitting in the Shadow of the Perfect,


s: His Soul found Quiet under; sweet it seem'd,


s: Sweeping the Chaff and Litter from his own,


s: Slave of the FirmÃ¡n of the Lord of Life,


s: Then The Sage marvell'd at his Towardness,


s: He pour'd the Wine of Wisdom in his Cup,


s: And broke in Passion from his Lips, The Sage


s: Till, having sow'd the Seed of Quiet there,


s: The Sage would tell of a Celestial Love;


s: "Zuhrah," he said, "the Lustre of the Starsâ


s: 'Fore whom the Beauty of the Brightest wanes;


s: Who were she to reveal her perfect Beauty,


s: The Sun and Moon would craze; Zuhrah," he said,


s: "The Sweetness of the Banquetânone in Song


s: Like Herâher Harp filling the Ear of Heaven,


s: With Zuhrah wrought, that she reveal'd herself


s: And washing AbsÃ¡l's Image from his Breast,


s: There reign'd instead. Celestial Beauty seen,


s: He left the Earthly; and, once come to know


s: The Throne of the SultÃ¡n how high!âBut not


s: For AllâNone but the Heaven-ward Foot may dare


s: To mountâThe Head that touches Heaven to wear!â


s: Of that lost Travel, girded up his Heart,


s: And look'd with undefilÃ©d Robe to Heaven.


s: Then was His Head worthy to wear the Crown,


s: His Foot to mount the Throne. And then The Shah


s: Summon'd the Chiefs of Cities and of States,


s: Summon'd the Absolute Ones who wore the Ring,


s: From all the Quarters of the World, but there;


s: Then The Shah crown'd him with the Golden Crown,


s: And set the Golden Throne beneath his Feet.


s: With the Diamond of Wisdom cut and said:â


s: Make thou the Faith-preserving Intellect


s: To-morrow's Seed-field, ere That come to bear,


s: Art wise, that _Do_; what not, consult the Wise,


s: Turn not thy Face away from the old Ways,


s: That were the Canon of the Kings of Old;


s: Nor cloud with Tyranny the Glass of Justice;


s: Look to the _How_; Giving and Taking still,


s: Not by the backward Counsel of the Godless,


s: But by the Law of Faith increase and Give.


s: Drain not thy People's purseâthe Tyranny


s: Which Thee enriches at thy Subjects' cost,


s: Awhile shall make Thee strong; but in the End


s: Shall bow thy Neck beneath a Double Burden.


s: To save and not destroy; nor at their Loss


s: To lift Thyself above the Shepherd's calling.


s: For which is for the other, Flock or Shepherd?


s: And join with Thee true Men to keep the Flock.


s: Dogs, if you willâbut Trustyâhead in leash,


s: And least of all the Wolf's Accomplices,


s: Their Jaws blood-dripping from the Tyrant's Shambles.


s: For Shahs must have VizÃrsâbut be they Wise


s: And Trustyâknowing well the Realm's Estateâ


s: (For who eats Profit of a Fool? and least


s: A wise King girdled by a Foolish Council)â


s: Knowing how far to Shah and Subject bound


s: Nor Usury wrung from the People's purse,


s: Their Master's and their own Estates (to whom


s: Enough is apt enough to make them Rebel)


s: Feeding to such a Surplus as feeds Hell.


s: Their sweet Access a Salve to wounded Hearts,


s: Their Vengeance terrible to the Evil Doer,


s: Thy Heralds through the Country bringing Thee


s: (Whereto the Wise hath found himself a way)


s: What signifies The Shah? and what the Sage?


s: When he had drawn his Garment from her Hand?


s: What means that Fiery Pile? and what The Sea?


s: And what that Heavenly Zuhrah who at last


s: Clear'd AbsÃ¡l from the Mirror of his Soul?


s: All Ear from Head to Foot and Understanding be.


s: The Incomparable Creator, when this World


s: Of Joy and Sorrow, Himself apart from Matter,


s: Hath fashion'd all that isâMaterial Form,


s: Directed all, and in his Bounty drown'd.


s: Therefore is He that FirmÃ¡n-issuing Shah


s: To whom the World was subject. But because


s: Himself from still a Higher Power receives,


s: The Wise, and all who comprehend aright,


s: His the Prime Spirit that, spontaneously


s: A Special Essence called The Soulâa Child


s: Fresh sprung from Heaven in Raiment undefiled


s: Of Sensual Taint, and therefore call'd SalÃ¡mÃ¡n.


s: Slave to the Blood and Senseâthrough whom The Soul,


s: Does yet imbibe the Knowledge and Desire


s: Of Things of Sense; and these united thus


s: What is The Sea on which they sail'd?âThe Sea


s: And wherefore was it AbsÃ¡l in that Isle


s: Deceived in her Delight, and that SalÃ¡mÃ¡n


s: Fell short of his Desire?âThat was to show


s: How Passion tires, and how with Time begins


s: And what the turning of SalÃ¡mÃ¡n's Heart


s: Back to the Shah, and looking to the Throne


s: Till all the Dross of Matter be consumed,


s: And the Essential Soul, its Raiment clean


s: Therefore The Sage set in SalÃ¡mÃ¡n's Eyes


s: A Soothing Fantom of the Past, but still


s: She fill'd, and blotted out his Mortal Love.


s: For what is Zuhrah?âThat Divine Perfection,


s: Wherewith the Soul inspir'd and all array'd


s: And mounts The Throne and wears The Crown, and Reigns


s: Which to know wholly ponder in thy Heart,


s: Till all its ancient Secret be enlarged.


s: excitement they produce exceeds that of the grape. He who would


s: Take, as specimens of these gnomic verses, the following:â


s: Who knows what's right and what's forbid,


s: Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:â


s: "Colour, taste, and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,â


s: Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,â


s: If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,â


s: If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there."


s: The rapidity of his turns is always surprising us:â


s: Who weds her for dowry must pay his soul."


s: "Loose the knots of the heart; never think on thy fate;


s: No Euclid has yet disentangled that snarl."


s: "To be wise the dull brain so earnestly throbs,


s: Bring bands of wine for the stupid head."


s: The other merit of Hafiz is his intellectual liberty, which is a


s: Hypocrisy is the perpetual butt of his arrows.


s: "Let us draw the cowl through the brook of wine."


s: We do not wish to strew sugar on bottled spiders, or try to make


s: Every song of Hafiz affords new proof of the unimportance of your


s: "Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down,


s: Poises Arcturus aloft morning and evening his spear."


s: It is told of Hafiz, that, when he had written a compliment to a


s: "Take my heart in thy hand, O beautiful boy of Shiraz!


s: I would give for the mole on thy cheek Samarcand and Buchara!"â


s: But it is easy to Hafiz. It gives him the opportunity of the most


s: "Out of the East, out of the West, no man understands me;


s: O, the happier I, who confide to none but the wind!


s: This morning heard I how the lyre of the stars resounded,


s: 'Sweeter tones have we heard from Hafiz!'"


s: I, a wanderer, do not stray from myself,


s: I am a kind of parrot; the mirror is holden to me;


s: What the Eternal says, I stammering say again.


s: Give me what you will; I eat thistles as roses,


s: And according to my food I grow and I give.


s: Scorn me not, but know I have the pearl,


s: And his claim has been admitted from the first. The muleteers and


s: Here is an ode which is said to be a favourite with all educated


s: "Come!âthe palace of heaven rest on aÃ«ry pillars,â


s: Come, and bring me wine; our days are wind.


s: I declare myself the slave of that masculine soul


s: Which ties and alliance on earth once for ever renounces.


s: Told I thee yester-morn how the Iris of heaven


s: Brought to me in my cup a gospel of joy?


s: O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is thy perch;


s: This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest.


s: Hearken! they call to thee down from the ramparts of heaven;


s: I cannot divine what holds thee here in a net.


s: I, too, have a counsel for thee; O mark it and keep it.


s: Since I received the same from the Master above:


s: Seek not for faith or for truth in a world of light-minded girls;


s: Cumber thee not for the world, and this my precept forget not,


s: 'Tis but a toy that a vagabond sweetheart has left us.


s: Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;


s: Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;


s: Neither endurance nor truth belongs to the laugh of the rose.


s: The loving nightingale mourns;âcause enow for mourning;â


s: Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?


s: Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech."


s: "O'er the garden water goes the wind alone


s: To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;


s: The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,


s: But it burns again on the tulips brave."


s: So much the kindlier shows him than before;


s: Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,


s: He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor."


s: he proceeds to the celebration of his passion; and nothing in his


s: If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth


s: and plays in a thousand pretty courtesies:â


s: "They strew in the paths of kings and czars


s: But for thy head I will pluck down stars,


s: Then we have all degrees of passionate abandonment:â


s: And sometimes his love rises to a religious sentiment:â


s: Yet sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,


s: The king's hand gives the grouse's breast;


s: Must gnaw worms in the thorn. Farewell!'"


s: "A painter in China once painted a hall;â


s: Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;â


s: One half from his brush with rich colours did run,