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their throats in praise of the all bounteous king
- If from the fields of heavenly light
- an angel there had bent his flight
- as the sleek moth with powdery wing
- Circles the lamps in ceaseless ring
- He sure had lingered in its round
- Nor ever left the charmed ground
- The Shah was in an extasy of delight but when the glamour of his eyes fell on Gheti afroz
- A heaven of charms appeared the queen
- Such as no mortal eye had seen
- Charms to compare with which were weak
- The lustre of a Peris cheek
- Charms that were viewed with mute surprise
- And the fair of paradise
- He was seated on a throne of polished emerald the radiations of her [sory?] cheek were like the blissful rays of the ruby while the Shah fancied in sooth that the Orient Moon had descended from heaven and exclaimed in extacy
- Whence spread the dazzling blaze of light
- Is this the Moon Deceives my sight
- The Brilliance of the Tulip flower
- Or the bright sun at noontide hour
- Who such celestial beam imparts
- The mirror and the queen of hearts
- Sweet
