Like ships, that have gone down at sea, A word unkind or wrongly taken — Oh! love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this hath shaken. To spread the breach that words begin ; Like broken clouds, or like the stream, That smiling left the mountain's brow, As though its waters ne'er could sever, Yet, ere it reach the plain below, Breaks into floods, that part for ever. Oh you, that have the charge of Love, X I As in the Fields of Bliss above He sits, with flowrets fetter'd round; 7 Loose not a tie that round him clings, Some difference, of this dangerous kind, — 7 See the representation of the Eastern Cupid, pinioned closely round with wreaths of flowers, in Picart's Cérémonies Religieuses. 8 "Among the birds of Tonquin is a species of goldfinch, which sings so melodiously that it is called the Celestial Bird. Its wings, when it is perched, appear variegated with beautiful colours, but when it flies they lose all their splendour.". Grosier. And far hath banish'd from his sight His NOURMAHAL, his Haram's Light! Hence is it, on this happy night, When Pleasure through the fields and groves And every heart has found its own, He wanders, joyless and alone, And weary as that bird of Thrace, Whose pinion knows no resting-place. ' In vain the loveliest cheeks and eyes This Eden of the earth supplies 9 Come crowding round-the cheeks are pale, What is it to the nightingale, If there his darling rose is not? 9" As these birds on the Bosphorus are never known to rest, they are called by the French 'les ames damnées."" - Dalloway. I "You may place a hundred handfuls of fragrant herbs and flowers before the nightingale, yet he wishes not, in his constant heart, for more than the sweet breath of his beloved rose,' Jami. He heeds them not one smile of hers Is worth a world of worshippers. They but the Star's adorers are, She is the Heav'n that lights the Star! Hence is it too that NOURMAHAL, Far from the joyous festival, Sits in her own sequester'd bower, Time's wing but seem'd, in stealing o'er, To leave her lovelier than before. Yet on her smiles a sadness hung, And when, as oft, she spoke or sung Of other worlds, there came a light From her dark eyes so strangely bright, That all believ'd nor man nor earth Were conscious of NAMOUNA's birth! All spells and talismans she knew, To the gold gems 3 of AFRIC, bound 4 To keep him from the Siltim's harm. Of one who knew, though high her sphere, To find some spell that should recall 2 "He is said to have found the great Mantra, spell or talisman, through which he ruled over the elements and spirits of all denominations.". Wilford. 3 "The gold jewels of Jinnie, which are called by the Arabs El Herrez, from the supposed charm they contain."— Jackson. 4"A demon, supposed to haunt woods, &c. in a human shape.”Richardson. 5 The name of Jehanguire before his accession to the throne, |