Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál Together...

Salámán heard—the Sea of his Soul was mov’d, And bubbled up with Jewels, and he said; “Oh Shah, I am the Slave of thy Desire, Dust of thy Throne ascending Foot am I; Whatever thou Desirest I would do, But sicken of my own Incompetence; Not in the Hand of my infirmer Will To carry into Deed mine own Desire. Time upon Time I torture mine own Soul, Devising liberation from the Snare I languish in. But when upon that Moon I think, my Soul relapses—and when look— I leave both Worlds behind to follow her!”