Sol 5.6

  1. O heart, alas for you! You betrayed me and did the deed.

    You loosened the knot of my repentance and undid it.

  2. O eye, my affliction comes from you—I beheld it.

    Why did you not keep her veiled from the beautiful face?

  3. O third among the viziers, how many a knot

    of anguish and sorrow have you unfastened!

  4. How many a hidden matter have you pondered in private thought,

    and how many consequences discerned through sound judgment;

  5. how many a favor have you sent forth with a cheerful face!

    It loomed great to the seeker of your bounty, though you deemed it small.

  6. You forgot it, bestowed it again, then forgot it once more—

    until you were praised for it, and so remembered it.

  7. When you commanded it, its earnest purpose hid itself

    behind jest from those who hoped, as you bestowed it lavishly.

  8. Then they awakened to its truth, as though they

    had dreamed of it in sleep when you pronounced it.

  9. And many a meaning filled with wisdom have you poured

    into the mold of a phrase made concise.

  10. The vizierate itself had long yearned for you,

    until it came to you: it did not exalt you—you exalted it.

  11. Like a bride escorted to you by her own soul,

    it came hastening, though you had paid no dowry.

  12. A father’s discernment concerning you proved true:

    in your cradle, he foresaw the station to which you would be raised.

Sol 5.6