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  • And should see the beloved one searching with a lantern for a ring in the rivulet of the orchard.
  • Therefore at that moment, from the delight (which he experienced), he conjoined praise of God with prayers for the night-patrol, 55
  • Saying, “I caused loss to the night-patrol by fleeing (from him): scatter o’er him twenty times as much silver and gold.
  • Set him free from policing: make him glad even as I am glad.
  • Keep him blest in this world and in that world, deliver him from policing and currishness—
  • Though it is the nature of that policeman, O God, that he always desires the people to be afflicted.”
  • If news come that the king has imposed a fine upon the Moslems, he (the policeman) waxes big and exultant; 60
  • And if news come that the king has shown mercy and has generously taken off that (penalty) from the Moslems,
  • A mournfulness falls upon his soul thereat: the policeman hath a hundred such depravities.
  • He (the lover) was bringing the policeman into the prayer (of benediction), because such solace had come to him from the policeman.