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With Sa'di in the Garden

or The Book of Love: Being The "Ishk" or Third Chapter of The "Bostcan" of the Persian Poet Sa'di: Embodied in a Dialogue Held in the Garden of The Taj Mahal, at Agra: By Sir Edwin Arnold
Arnold, Edwin (1832-1904)

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“Bring my Life, my Mistress, here!
Let her see me on my bier!
If she deign my lips to kiss
I—
 

The Persian lines were—

Janan-i-man baman biyarid
In mudah tanam bâdo miyarid
Agar boosa zanad bar in labânam
Ta—
(Sa'di filled in: zindah shavam! ajab madarid.)

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