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fall though triple suns shone forth! Here would I dash myself down; the great rocks are very nigh to me. To thee would I commit my soul; perchance wings would be given to me by Heaven.
1280. "Entreat God for me; it may be He will deliver me from the travail of the world and from union[1] with fire, water, earth and air. Let Him give me wings and I shall fly up, I shall attain my desire—day and night I shall gaze on the sun's rays flashing in splendour.[2]
1281. "The sun cannot be without thee, for thou art an atom[3] of it; of a surety thou shalt adhere to it as its zodiac (Leo), and not as one rejected.[4] There shall I see thee; I shall liken thee to it, thou shalt enlighten my darkened heart. If my life was bitter, let my death be sweet![5]
1282. "Death is no longer grievous to me, since it is to thee I commit my soul; but I have laid thy love in my heart, and there it rests. When I think of parting from thee, for me wound is added to wound. Weep not and mourn not for me, O mine own, for love of me!
1283. "Go, betake thyself to India, be of some help to my father, who is straitened by foes, helpless on all sides; comfort the heart of him who suffers separation from me. Think of me weeping for thy sake with undrying tears.
1284. "Whatever complaint I have made against my Fate is sufficient complaint. Know this, that true justice goeth from heart to heart[6]; for thy sake will I die, I shall
- ↑ M. reads dzrtsoma, to unite, for dzroma, to creep; the latter, the accepted reading, would make "world; fire, water and earth, the air, with reptiles," or "creeping with," etc. Professor Marr's interpretation has been used to a great extent in this and the immediately succeeding quatrains, as in many other parts of the poem.
- ↑ Quivering with lightning flash.
- ↑ Tsili, part, fragment.
- ↑ Tsbili, ? connected with tsba, to suck in. Ch. derives from tsbola, to be put to shame; also, agree, be correlated, 1030. An alternative rendering: "Thou shalt be near (the sun) as his planet, and not be drawn in" (and thus lose thine identity in the solar mass?), 1451.
- ↑ M. xii., p. xlvii, for analogies in Neo-Platonic writers.
- ↑ ? that in compensation for Nestan's hard fate Tariel will be favoured by Fate, and thus the balance will be equal. Cf. last line of this quatrain; or, ? "how true and righteous justice affects the heart."
