Ibn Hazm paints a gorgeous picture, for example, of how our souls all come from the same great whole, which is shattered into pieces. When we meet someone. And has the night because of thee Now come to share my misery, Or will it succour bring, perchance, To this my weary vigilance? The tears of passion flow And flow again; The veil, of love, I know, Is rent in twain. Then Allah so ordained that we should come together; thereafter he became my dearest friend, and I his likewise, until the day that death parted us.
But when the fire really takes a hold and is firmly established, then you will see the secret whispering, the unconcealed turning away from all present but the beloved. Some men I have seen, that were given to correspondence, who made all haste to tear their letters up, to dissolve them in water, and to tbe out all trace of them. Their sons, their brothers, and all their near kinsmen possessed the selfsame characteristics.
The idealization of a sort of. Only flag comments that clearly need our attention. The following verses were written by me to commemorate this friendship. Many a shameful exposure has been occasioned by a letter, as I have remarked in verse. I know not whether the heavens have devoured her, ubn whether the earth has swallowed her up; and the feeling I have in my heart on her account is hotter than burning coals.
There is another variety of verbal allusion, which is only to be brought into play when an accord has been reached, and the lover knows that his sentiments are reciprocated. I also know a man whose first attachment was with a girl inclined to be petite; he never fell in love with a tall woman after that.
For all that the subtle secret will out. I do not think that the prose parts of this version need too much apology; but something ought certainly to be said on behalf of the pieces dovf metre and rhyme. This is what you see when you look into a mirror; in that situation you are as it were looking at yourself through the eyes of another.
Now the men of whom I have been speaking are by no means under-endowed knowledge and culture; on the contrary they are men of the keenest perception, truly worthy to be described as intelligent and understanding. Movement always takes place from the side of the more powerful. After this comes a chapter on Those who have fallen in Love while Asleep; then a chapter on Those who have fallen in Love through a Description; next a chapter on Those who have fallen in Love at First Sight; a chapter on Those whose Love has only become True after Long Association; a chapter on Allusion by Words; a chapter on Hinting with the Eyes; a chapter on Correspondence; and lastly of these first ten a chapter on the Messenger.
Now the difference between this sham, and real aversion and contrariness born of deep-seated hatred and inveterate contention, is that lovers are very quickly reconciled after their disputes. What is truly amazing, is that a man formerly accustomed to see things with the eye of truth should suddenly be overcome by a casual passion, after he has been out about in society a long time, and that this accident of caprice should so completely transform him from his previous habits as to become a second nature with him, entirely displacing his first.
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Then on your arrival you revealed your intention plainly to me, and informed me of your views with that frankness which has always characterized our relations, that habit of sharing with me your every sweetness and bitterness, your every private thought and public profession.
My dazzled judgment sees not clear; Bewilderment defeats my mind. Te pray that God in His great bounty will draw over us and all good Moslems the curtain of His mercy. However, I can also ringg an even more perfect example of virtuosity from my own works-the likening of three, and even four pairs of things dovve a single stanza; both these feats have been accomplished in the piece here following.
I also have an ode, composed before reaching puberty, in which I follow the usual conventions observed by those who treat this theme; I will quote the opening lines. I do not consider, that this was any kind of affectation on their part; on the contrary, it was their true and natural disposition to admire such eccentric qualities; they chose them unreservedly, they thought none other worthy of regard, and in the very depths of their souls they did not believe otherwise.
Ah, would I knew who she might be, And how she walked by night! Yet those qualities had become an obsession with them, the sole object of their passion, and the very last word as they thought in elegance. So I am alike in consolation and in passion; I have never in my life forgotten any romance, dovee my nostalgia for every former attachment is such that I well nigh choke when I drink, and suffocate when I fhe. There is no other prize I seek: When we say and feel that one accident is greater or smaller, more beautiful or uglier in reality oof another accident, according to our apprehension of that reality, we recognize that accidents differ from each other, in terms of excess or deficiency, in respect only of their visible and knowable essence; there is no question of numerical quantity or physical partition being relevant to them, seeing that they do not occupy any space.
I cannot any cause discover, Except my will, to be thy lover, And boldly challenge any man To name another, if he can. We have arranged them serially from the beginning to the conclusion of the story according to there due right of precedence, their gradations, and their actuality, proceeding methodically from the first degree to the last.
I have made this point in the verses, which follow.
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