THE KURAL
1206. It is but the recollection of our union that keepeth me alive yet : what else of life is there in me ?[1]
1207. Even with my memory full of him, my heart burneth within me : what then will be my case if I forget him ?
1208. How often soever I recall my beloved to my mind he will not be wroth with me : so much is the favour that my beloved bestoweth upon me !
1209. When my heart thinketh on his cruelty who once said, We are not two but only one life and soul, verily my life ebbeth away.
1210. O Moon ! set not in the horizon, I pray thee, till my eyes look again upon him who, abiding still within my heart, hath yet parted from me.
- ↑ The maid is to be supposed to have said, "As it is remembrance that causes thee all this sorrow, why dost thou not try to forget thy beloved for some time?" The text is to taken as the reply of the mistress to this supposed address.
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