Ghazal of Sayyid Ahmad

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Title:     Ghazal of Sayyid Ahmad
Author: Edward Powys Mathers [More Titles by Mathers]

My heart is torn by the tyranny of women very quietly;
Day and night my tears are wearing away my cheeks very quietly.

Life is a red thing like the sun setting very quietly;
Setting quickly and heavily and very quietly.

If you are to buy heaven by a good deed, to-day the market is open;
To-morrow is a day when no man buys,
And the caravan is broken up very quietly.

The kings are laughing and the slaves are laughing; but for your sake
_Sayyid Ahmad_ is walking and mourning very quietly.

From the Pus'hto (Afghans, nineteenth century).

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Edward P. Mathers's Asiatic Love Poem: Ghazal of Sayyid Ahmad

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