Vis and Ramin

170 VISKAMIANI .
rounds, and they have gone in from the frost. Since it is
BO, and the sentinels are not posted on the roofs, all will
be easy to us. Kamin is here near us, though in the
darkness we cannot see him. He knows that we are in
this chamber. He has often been in this castle without
Moabad, and knows a thousand ways of entering.
Let us
open one of these play- windows l and light a candle. He
will see us from outside, and will approach. And then we
shall bring him in."
When she had said this, the nurse lighted a candle ; by
194 her cunning she could fetter even devs. When Eamin
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saw the candle he was joyful, and came towards it. He
perceived why the candle was lighted, and like a falcon 2
he mounted the rock. A sage says: "So will the lover's
heart be : neither will pain oppress him nor will hurt hurt
him. In seeking the loved one he will forsake his faith or
change it. The length 3 of the sun seems small, and the
Burly lion a fox. Greediness for love is such that a barren
plain seems a vineyard, a mountain a hair, and the sea a
canal. 4 No one is sold like the heart falling in love, 5 for
no one hales the heart before a judge. Love knows not
beauty and ugliness, for love's reason blooms in blindness."
When Kamin approached on the rock, Vis looked down
from above, and folded in two forty pieces of Greek 6 brocade
7 and whatever else she could find, knotted them
together stoutly, and let them down. Eamin came and
mounted even more nimbly 8 than a panther. 9 When he
was come up
into the castle the sun and the moon were
united together, and embraced each other like milk and
wine in one glass; gold and pearls mingled, musk and
amber 10 were mixed together ; dark night became light as
1 Sat'hamasho, 197 ; sarcmeli, 107, 217 ; jalousie window whence
ladies could look at sports.
2 Shavardeni, 197. E., 459, 606. 3 Sigdze? distance.
* Bu, 170, 205.
5 Arshicoba. Cf. ashicoba, E., 25, 348, 1067.
e 2, 177, 202, 212. 1 Stavra, E., 672, 1414.
s Uciscised. Vep'hlchi, 185, 199.
10
Ambari, 140.