I have indeed drained all the bowl whose draught repression[390] was ✿ Handed by friend who bitter gourd[391] therein for drinking threw. And, oft as strove I to enjoin the ways of troth and faith, ✿ So often on refusal’s path he left my soul to sue. Indeed my body molten is with care I’m doomèd dree; ✿ And yet I hoped relenting and to win some grace, my due. But wrong and rigour waxed on me and changed to worse my case; ✿ And love hath left me weeping-eyed for woes that aye pursue. How long must I keep watch for you throughout the nightly gloom? ✿ How many a path of pining pace and garb of grief endue? And you, what while you joy your sleep, your restful pleasant sleep, ✿ Reck naught of sorrow and of shame that to your friend accrue: For wakefulness I watched the stars before the peep o’ day, ✿ Praying that union with my dear in bliss my soul imbrue; Indeed the throes of long desire laid waste my frame and I ✿ Rise every morn in weaker plight with hopes e’er fewer few: “Be not (I say) so hard of heart!” for did you only deign ✿ In phantom guise to visit me ’twere joy enough to view. But when ye saw my writ ye grudged to me the smallest boon ✿ And cast adown the flag of faith though well my troth ye knew; Nor aught of answer you vouchsafe, albe you wot full well ✿ The words therein address the heart and pierce the spirit through. You deemed yourself all too secure for changes of the days ✿ And of the far and near alike you ever careless grew. Hadst thou (dear maid) been doomed like me to woes, forsure hadst felt ✿ The lowe of love and Lazá-hell which parting doth enmew; Yet soon shalt suffer torments such as those from thee I bear ✿ And storm of palpitation-pangs in vitals thine shall brew: Yea, thou shalt taste the bitter smack of charges false and foul, ✿ And public make the privacy best hid from meddling crew; And he thou lovest shall approve him hard of heart and soul ✿ And heedless of the shifts of Time thy very life undo. Then hear the fond Salam I send and wish thee every day ✿ While swayeth spray and sparkleth star all good thy life ensue!