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Satisfaction excludes speculation. 
I do not care, for love is all ;  one moment lent to 
mullah-talk 
Is lost to love ;  and why complain when nothing is 
at all amiss ? 
 
The folk that haunt the evil house of Fatma to Ha-
kim6 resort 
Wisely indeed :  Thy drugs !  they cry :  we cannot 
make a shift to piss !7 
 
The Zahid still frequents the mosque and moans 
the dreary Fatihah : 
O fools !  ye miss love’s podex-joy, and missing love 
all good ye miss. 
 
Come, O Habib, thy podex close on El Qahar’s 
enamoured tool ! 
Though we mistake the world and God, at least is 
no mistake in this. 
 
 
 
1.  After this ode the “ secret key-number ” 
breaks down.  It is said that there are five odes 
missing.  But no doubt need therefore be cast upon 
the genuineness of the following odes.  Some 
weight is to be given to the contention that there 
can be only 42 odes, neither more nor less, for 
mystical reasons.  Their Persian dress I cannot 
learn ;  but the Egyptians knew 42 Gods who purify 
the soul ;  and the Jews speak of the “ Revolution of 
the 42-fold Name of the Palaces of Yetzirah ” — the 
world which should invade and redeem this ma-
terial scheme of things. 
Talking of this “ scheme of things ”, I remember 
the wit of a certain comely youth at Oxford, who 
reproached his exhausted lover with the quatrain : 
 
“ Ah love !  could Thou and I with Fate conspire