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Love's more delicate than
a flower,
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And more precious than my life;
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My heart is its permanent home,
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And I its vigilant guard !
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It's love that drew me on
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To the flower bush in Shalamar
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From my nest in the thorn shrubs
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Growing on desolate land.
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Tell me how autumn brings only blight,
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Leaving spring to repair the damage,
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For while yemberzal blooms in spring,
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Autumn brings saffron flowers !
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Be like Satyabhama, who knew that God
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Can never be weighed with wealth.
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Rejecting all her diamonds,
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She weighed Krishna with her love.
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I begged in the evening for a view
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Of his beauteous form. His answer came
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As a staggering medley greeting my eyes,
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When dawn broke over the mountain peaks.
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You have no faith in what I say,
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But - don't mind my being frank ! -
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Having the heart of a policeman,
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You do not know compassion.
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No one forgives a starving man
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Who steals to feed himself,
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But how about the rich hiring hands,
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To have thousands done to death ?
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My words one day will be parables,,
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My call acquire a force;
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Only let Hairat's spirit wake up,
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And may Zinda Kaul live long !
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Mahjoor, love's fire must be borne
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In silence, as by a cooking stove;
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For you can comfort others only
When you have borne this fire.