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THE TAH.IUMAN AL-ASHWAQ (X X ) 87

10. And stop witl) me a little while at the ruins, that we
may endeavour to weep, nay, that I may weep indeed
because of that which befell me.
1 1 . Passion shoots me without arrows, passion slays me
without a spear.
12 . Tell me, will ye weep with me when I weep beside her ?
Help me, oh help me to weep !
13. And rehearse to me the tale of Hind and Lubna and
Sulayma and Zaynab and Tnan !
1- l. Then tell me further 67 l.Iajir and Zarvkl, give me news
of the pastures of the gazelles !
15. And mourn for me with the poetry of Qays and Lubna,
and with May3ui and the afflicted Ghajdan I
IG. Long have I j^earned for a tender maiden, endowed with
prose and verse, having a pulpit, eloquent,
17. One of the princesses from the land of Persia, from the
most clorious of citie.s, from Isfalnin.
18. She is the daughter of ‘Iraq, the daughter of my Imam,
and I am her opposite, a child of Yemen.
19. O m3’ lords, liave 3’e seen or heard that two opposites
are ever xmited ?
20. Had 3’ou .seen us at Rama protlering each other cups of
passion without fingers,
21. Whilst pa.ssion caused sweet and jo3’ous words to be
uttered between us witliout a tongue,
22. You would have seen a state in which the under­
standing disappears — Yemen and ‘Iraq embracing
23. Falsely spoke the poet ^ who said before m3' time
together.
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(and he has pelted me with the stones of his under­
standing),
2- 1. ‘ O thou who givest the Pleiades in marriage to Suha3’l,
God bless thee ! how should they meet ?
25. The Pleiades are in the north whenever they rise, and
Suhn3d whenever he ri.ses is in the south.’

* ‘Umar b. Abi Ilabi'a, e<b by Schwarz, vol. ii, p. 247, No. 439.