Vis and Ramin

I CHAPTER
LXXI 377
THE broken-hearted Kamin said :
" Do not so to me, moon ! Do not reproach me so
heedlessly, do not oppress me ! Is not such insult enough,
and so many times depriving me of the grace of thy coun-
tenance and reproaching me with shamelessness ? . . .
Again thou hast pierced my heart with the arrows of
reproach. I can bear no more than this. Thou hast
wounded my soul and heart. What worse than this can
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befall me than that thou shouldst : say I grudge thee
the spot on which thou standest ?' Why dost thou grudge
me the public square for a resting-place? It is not
Moabad's palace. I must seem a foe or a bloody enemy,
since thou grudgest me for a resting-place the high road,
passable to all men. It is trodden by all, foes and friends,
and envy from thee is baseless. Didst not thou say to me
that prudent men at the time of quarrel should keep in
their hearts a way of reconciliation. Now, why dost thou
not remember this ? Is not thy race also created from the
clay? Now, if thou wilt not forgive me, and thy love is
gone, what is to be, let it be !
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" I will go hence certainly. But, heartless, loverless, 378
joyless, and impatient, grant me a token 1 from thy hair;
give me from thy headgear 2 something to make me forget
woe; let me take away one ringlet 9 from the thick rope 4
of thy hair which binds the hearts of all, young and old.
Surely thou wilt deliver my soul from woe, since 'tis thou
that hast thus wounded it with thine arrow ! Mayst thou
1 ladigari, iadgari, iedgari-
' Saburavi, 222. B., 1126. Alqa, 882. B. 78, 956.
4 Toilo, 827, 841.
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