A literary history of Persia

DIALECTAL POETRY 853-Vi-shum, vdshum, azin 'dlam ba-dar shunt !Vi-shum, az Chin u Md-chin dir-tar shum tVi-shum, az Hdjiydn-i-Haj bi-pursum'Ki 'i' dirt bas-i', yd dir-tar shum t"Out of this world I will arise, and fareTo China and beyond ;and when I'm thereI'll ask the Pilgrims of the Pilgrimage,4Is here enough ? If not, direct me where I' "Here vt-shum = bi-shavam y" I will go " ;vdsham = eitherbdsham "yI willstay, abide," or bdz " shavam^ I will again go,"or " I will go back " ;dir-tar = " "dur-tar, further /' =j /," " this;bas-l = bas-astt" isenough."Besides these, however, many other well-known poets, suchas Sa'di, Hafidh, Pindar or Bundar of Ray, Bus-haq (AbuIshaq), the gastronomic poet and parodist of Shiraz, and othersenumerated inmy article in the Royal Asiatic Society's Journalfor October, 1895 (pp. 773-825), on "the Poetry of thePersian Dialects," composed occasional verses in various formsof patois, though these present, save in the best and mostancient manuscripts, so hopelessly corrupt a text that it isvery difficult to make anything of them. One very good andancient manuscript, dated A.H. 635, of a probably uniquePersian work on the history of the Seljuqs,entitled KitabuRabat?s-Sudur . . . . fi tawartkht Kay-Khusraw wa Al-i-Saljuq ycomposed by Najmu'd-Dm Abu Bakr Muhammad b. { Alf b.Sulayman b. Muhammad b. Ahmad b. al-Husaynb. Himmatar-Rawandi, and now forming part of the magnificent libraryof the late M. Charles Schefer, contains numerous Fahlawiyydt,or verses in dialect, which appeared to me, on a cursoryexamination, to merit, in spite of their difficulty, a carefulstudy on account of the age of the manuscript and the presumablecorrectness of the text.In the notices of poets and poetesses (eighty-nine in number)contained in ch. v, 6 of I^amdu'llah Mustawfi's excellent