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Abu l-’Ata of Sind: An Address to the Beloved

From the ‘Hamásah’: Translation of Sir Charles James Lyall

OF thee did I dream, while spears between us were quivering—

and sooth, of our blood full deep had drunken the tawny shafts!

I know not—by Heaven I swear, and here is the word I say!—

this pang, is it love-sickness, or wrought by a spell from thee?

If it be a spell, then grant me grace of thy love-longing—

if other the sickness be, then none is the guilt of thine!