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1748-1757

  • Although the object of thy desire has the taste of sugar, is not absence of any object of desire (in thee) the object of the Beloved's desire?
  • Every star of His is the blood-price of a hundred new moons: it is lawful for Him to shed the blood of the (whole) world.
  • We gained the price and the blood-price: we hastened to gamble our soul away. 1750
  • Oh, the life of lovers consists in death: thou wilt not win the (Beloved's) heart except in losing thine own.
  • I sought (to win) His heart with a hundred airs and graces, (but) He made excuses to me (put me off) in disdain.
  • I said, “After all, this mind and soul (of mine) are drowned in Thee.” “Begone,” said He, “begone! Do not chant these spells over Me (do not seek thus to beguile Me).
  • Do not I know what thought thou hast conceived? O thou who hast seen double, how hast thou regarded the Beloved?
  • O gross-spirited one, thou hast held Him in light esteem, because thou hast bought Him very cheaply. 1755
  • He that buys cheaply gives cheaply: a child will give a pearl for a loaf of bread.”
  • I am drowned in a love (so deep) that therein are drowned the first loves and the last.