SELECTION
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- From: G V Raaghavulu (@ 193.251.158.187)
on: Sat May 10 13:47:37 EDT 2003
Any Wordsworthian or Shakepearean specimen??
Any Urdu or Hindi literary particles?
Anything????
- From: RNJ GOPAAL (@ 63-100-210-75.reverse.newskies.net)
on: Mon May 12 03:21:17 EDT 2003
HERE IS A TRANSLATION OF A PERSIAN POEM.
THANKS TO MR. SHAHRYARI.
Haafiz Sheeraazi (the Persian poet) on the subject of
love.
I said, when will your lips mine satisfy?
You said, with your wishes I’ll comply.
I said, your lips demand a price so high,
You said, your profits will multiply.
I said, who found you while only on himself rely?
You said, there are very few who even try.
I said, leave the idols, choose the one that won’t die;
You said, for lovers, love to all will apply.
I said, the tavern drowns my every sigh;
You said, happy is the one who makes sorrows fly.
I said, in my creed, the way of wine must defy;
You said, this is the way of the creed of the old Magi.
I said, what use the wine, for one as old as I?
You said, it wets your spring of youth, which has gone dry.
I said, when will the master beside his bride lie?
You said, when the conjunction of moon and Jupiter is nigh.
I said, your praise is Hafiz’s ceaseless cry,
You said, this is the song of the angels in the sky.
© Shahriar Shahriari
Los Angeles, Ca
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