A literary history of Persia

84his words, and their simple, uniform metre (that fully styledHazaj-i-musaddas-i-mahdhuf) i.e. ythe hexameter Hazaj, ofwhich the last foot in each hemistich isapocopated, or deprivedof its last syllable, and which runs :|uu[|u |four times repeated in the quatrain). Here arethree of his best-known quatrains:i.Chi khush bl mihrabuni az du sar bi,Ki yak-sar mihrabuni dard-i-sar bi IAgar Majnun dil-i-sht'mda'i ddsht,Dil-i-Layld az un shurida-tar bi I" How sweet is love on either side confessed !One-sided love is ache of brain at best.Though Majnun bore a heart distraught with love,Not less distraught the heart in Layla's breast ! "In this quatrain the only dialect-forms are bl (== buvad,"is, will be"), and the substitution (common to most of thedialects, and prevalent to a great extent in the standard Persianspeech of the present day, especially in the South) of the-sound for d in mihrabuni.,2.Magar shir u palangl, ay dil, ay dil IBa-mii dd'int bi-jangi, ay dil, ay dil IAgar dastum futi, khunat vi-rizhum :Vi-mnum td chi rangi, ay dil, ay dill"Lion or leopard fierce thou surely art,Ever at war with us, O heart, O heart !If I can catch thee, I will spill thy blood,"And see of what strange hue thou art, O heart !Here ba-mh = ba mdy " with us";while dastum, vi-rlzhum^and vi-vlnum are equivalent respectivelyto dastam (for bi-dastam^"into my hand ")> bi-rlzam 'will see ").I will shed "), and bi-blnam ("I