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1450-1459

  • How should the smoke of the bath-stove attain unto the Sun? How should the ‘Anqá be crushed by the crow? 1450
  • Do not withhold (the truth) from us: explain this matter; we are lovers (of thee): do not behave to us in this fashion.
  • One ought not to drive lovers away or dupe them by mask and false pretence.
  • Communicate the secret, O King: do not hide thy face in the cloud, O Moon!
  • We are loving and true and with wounded (bleeding) hearts: in the two worlds we have fixed our hearts on thee (alone).”
  • He began (to use) foul words and bad names recklessly: he spoke gibberish like madmen. 1455
  • He jumped up and let fly stones and sticks; the whole party fled for fear of blows.
  • He laughed loudly and tossed his head (in scorn). “Look,” said he, “at the vain bluster of these friends!
  • See the friends! Where is the sign of (true) friends? To (true) friends pain is as (dear as) life.”
  • How should a friend turn aside from the pain inflicted by his friend? Pain is the kernel, and friendship is (only) as the husk to it.