To take a glimpse of your beloved from a hiding place does not show true love, but its greatest evidence is that you lay down your life in his house. No one can really love who is not serious about it.
To die of Thirst living on the bank of a river can only be business of fools. The beloved is always close as one’s heart, then why can’t you find him. The fool is not even aware of this fact and only bewails and laments like the one who was been robbed.
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Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure.
Others I see whom these surround—
Smiling they live, and call life pleasure;—
To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
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