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  • Neither entreaty nor wealth availed him: that (fresh) sapling was fully satisfied and without desire. 45
  • (In the case of) the lover of any craft or object of pursuit, God has touched his lip (with honey or the like) at the beginning of the affair;
  • (But) when at that contact they have entered upon the quest, He lays a snare before their feet every day.
  • When He has plunged him (the lover) into search for the matter (which he has at heart), after that He shuts the door, saying, “Bring the dowry.”
  • Still they cling to that (sweet) scent (hope) and go (on their quest): at every moment they become hopeful and despairing.
  • Every one (of them) hath hope of (winning) the fruit whereto a door was opened to him on a certain day; 50
  • Then it was shut (upon them) again; (but) that devotee to the door, (continuing) in the same hope, has become fire-footed.
  • When the youth joyously entered that orchard, verily on a sudden his foot sank in (struck upon) the (buried) treasure.
  • God had made the night-patrol the means, so that in fear of him he (the lover) should run into the orchard by night
  • And should see the beloved one searching with a lantern for a ring in the rivulet of the orchard.