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The Scented Garden
The Scented Garden (1910), PDF p. 161
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The rapture in rapture.
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XLII
BAGH-I-MUATTAR
Ye cypress-breasted boys of birth,
attend the coming of the gloom !
Expose your breasts of jasmine, show
your lily buttocks all abloom !
Let Love awake, and blush, as Love
comes glimmering from the starry womb,
With standing member all aglow,
purpled with cloth from Rapture’s loom.
O tulip cheeks ! O lips of rose !
the joy of Allah ye assume,
Rejoicing in the luscious play,
the slippery splendour of the spume
Cast from the holy hiding-place
for ever till the day of doom.
Rejoice, O podex, in thy strength !
thy spasms like the stars illume
Earth’s darkness, life’s disgrace, abash
the trifling terrors of the tomb.
The nargis scent shall steal about
the world, assuage its fret and fume,
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