Ghazal of Tavakkul

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Title:     Ghazal of Tavakkul
Author: Edward Powys Mathers [More Titles by Mathers]

To-day I saw Laila's breasts, the hills of a fair city
From which my heart might leap to heaven.

Her breasts are a garden of white roses
Having two drifted hills of fallen rose-leaves.

Her breasts are a garden where doves are singing
And doves are moaning with arrows because of her.

All her body is a flower and her face is Shalibagh[1];
She has fruits of beautiful colours and the doves abide there.

Over the garden of her breasts she combs the gold rain of her hair....
You have killed _Tavakkul_, the faithful pupil of Abdel Qadir Gilani[2].

From the Pus'hto (Afghans, nineteenth century).

Footnotes:

[1] SHALIBAGH: the notable garden of Shalimar in Lahore, planted by Shah Jahan in 1637. 5]

[2] ABDEL QADIR GILANI: Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, founder of the Qadirite order of the Dervishes, twelfth century.

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Edward Mathers's Asiatic Love Poem: Ghazal of Tavakkul

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