Chapter XLIV

I care not if no rest nor peace remain, I have my cherished pain, I have my rankling love that knows no end, And need no other friend. I yearned with all my heart to hold her fast, She laughed, and fled, and passed! Lakhs of enchantments, scores of spells I wove, But useless was my love. I would have given my life to make her stay, She went away, away, she went away. Though I effaced myself in deed and thought And brought myself to naught, The dark and sundering curtain hangs between I cannot pierce the screen. And still I know behind the veil she hides, And naught besides In all this changing Universe abides!

ZAFAR.