Vis and Ramin

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torment, now thou hast joy in thy lover, and thy heart's
desire. My heart is filled with love, for the face of my
beloved is a sun and a moon. Thou didst rejoice day and
night in her face, and didst think of the death of foes and
envious ones. Dates 1 and thorns may as soon be upon
one tree as joy of lovers and grief together. Now, heart,
if thou sacrifice thy soul it is not a return 2 for one of her
kisses. I desire my soul for such a friend's sake, and the
world is created for such a deed. Now thou hast drunk
wine, sorrow not ! To-morrow whatever God has decreed
154 for thee will happen. |
Surely
to-morrow better will befall
thee from Him than thou expectest to-day."
While Eamin drank wine, thus he chanted, he sang and
spoke. Vis, the light of beauties, was merry. In both,
love 3 failed not; here Vis and Kamin thus rejoiced, and
yonder Shahinshah was in grief and shame and anger, for
that Vis had sworn and had thus lulled his suspicion.
When he began to seek Vis he could not find her. The
world became darkened before his eyes. They sought her
a day and a night. Fire burned Moabad's liver, and his
heart also was lighted in a flaming furnace by her. When
hope of finding her was cut off, his death became desirable
to him ; then he committed his throne to his brother Zard
and entrusted it to him, for he was both his brother and
his trusty vizier.
i Khurma, 77.
3 Gulis monatzemi, 194.
2 Mulcap'ha, 121, 207.