Vis and Ramin

VIS FINDS RAMIN 197
take pity on us. In separation from you
two moons the
air l must needs be dark, and I can have no light in mine
eyes, nor vision, for the seat of one is high heaven, and of
the second a throne and a saddle."
During this discourse the hour of midnight came, and
the moon rose bright, darkness disappeared from the
heavens, and grief left Vis's heart. Ramin, weary of grief
and of wandering to and fro, had fallen asleep weeping
among the roses and lilies, 2 and his beloved found him
there sleeping. Ramin's heart perceived her, | he looked 225
embraced. The
up. When he saw her he leaped up ; they
sun and moon were united, 3 musk and amber were mixed ;
the rose, the hyacinth, 6 and the narcissus 6
4
mingled. The
night was made light with their two faces like the day ; by
reason of the fulfilment of their desires they remembered
not their griefs. The birds on the branches, the nightingales
7 on the rose in discourse praised the inexhaustibleness
of their love. In the garden the flowers smiled because of
their joy. The rose asked from them perfume, and the
narcissus 6 attractiveness. 8
Thereupon
their secret.
Fate and their ill-luck again made known
1
Aeri, 128.
a
Sosani, 197.
*
Cf. 194. RM 1896, 1397.
* SheizHnet. 8
Sumbuli, 223. 8
Nargisi, 222.
T fadoni, 190.
8 Sandomoba (?). Cf. Ch. Diet.