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letter Kaf.
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of peace, unalloyed wine, and the kind companion, ever attainable these be to thee, O excellent the grace of God
The abode If
!
The world and the world's work, all naught in naught is The verifying of this matter, a thousand times, I have made. :
To
a place of safety, go
For, in the
ambuscades
;
of time opportunity, reckon the plunder Path. life, are the highwaymen of the
Regret and sorrow that, up to this time, I knew not, That the alchemy of happiness is^ the Friend, the Friend
5.
:
of
!
For .penitence for the ruby lip (of the true Beloved), and for the laughter (the sparkling) of the cup,
(0 Saki!) come. Is
an imagination, verification whereof reason maketh not.
That
To
(darkish) beauty that
its
One
is in
the chin-pit of thine,
(profound) depth, reach not
of heart (and
many a thought
profound.
an Arif) to guide (me) to good (the true Beloved), is where? no way have we taken the path.
For, to the Friend, in
Although, to one contemptible like me, the (slender) hair of thy (small) waist reacheth not,
From
the thought of this subtle matter,
happy
is
my
heart.
A
thousand lives, the ransom for the Saki's glance that moment, When, with (ruddy) wine like (red) cornelian, the ruby-lip, he moisteneth. 4 H