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126 The Vanity of metaphysic. XXXVI SURAIYA1 Sevenfold stands Suraiya in the sky ; Seven virtues do thy podex glorify. First, thou art hotter than Jahim2 itself, And drier than Arabia art thou dry. Third is thy tightness, like an hoop of steel, And O ! thy muscles, their mobility ! Fifth, is thy smell like jasmine-ambergris, And soft thou art like peaches ; seventhly, Such is the beauty of its form that one Seeing it, might be well content to die. [So Allah blazes brighter than the noon ; No water stains His spotless unity. His love once hold t…
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… like a gravid she- ass. Puffy are thy cheeks and bloated, just as if the moon were turned by a sorcerer into putrid cheese.3 Fie ! thou art surely bewitched by this ugly fel- low, with his lips like rotten bananas.4 Because he has a member like an ass, why shouldest thou be in conduct like a mule ? I shall annoint myself with camel’s dung5 and drink many decoction of chob-chini,6 since nothing appeases thee but male vigour. Alas ! thou carest no more for riding, but only for tippling ; Firdausi6 pleases thee not, nor the Ghazals of thine El Qa…
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The First Joy of Union. 75 XVI THE JASMINE-JAR I am a bearded and a turbaned sar ;1 Thou art a boy more lovely than a star. Thou art mine own ; I beat thee sore indeed : More than thy beauty do I love the scar. I mocked thee, shamed thee. Men despise thee now. Well, it is well ! they come no more to mar Our loves ; we’ll wing through universal space, Borne in the moon’s chryselephantine car. Nor shall the bounds of heaven nor the walls Of Allah’s house to love be bond or bar.2 Nor shall the Thee make mischief with the Me, The Near be interrupte…
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66 The Pangs of Repentance. XIII THE BLIND BEGGAR Thou hast come back to me, Habib ! but in sooth thou art a sorry sight ! Fifteen1 years since thy birth in Iran ; yet thy flesh hangs on thee like his old clothes on Abdullah2 the blind beg- gar. Seven days did the barber and the druggist toil upon thee ; but thy foulness clings like musk. Also I have been put to great charges for thee, having shut thee up to purge and salivate.3 But oh ! how that droopeth that was straighter than a young palm ! Furthermore thou poutest, bemoan- ing thy Nubian t…
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…th the unbeliever3 and his three gods ; but whoso knoweth Allah knoweth Him to be one. For all that, Habib, it is a great pity that thou art not double as to thy podex ; I could more easily understand and excuse thy filthy dealings with the one-eyed Nubian yesterday. Of a surety thou stinkest yet of his sweat ; go wash thyself before thou comest wooing to El Qahar. Nay, darling ! come now, and as thou art ; I love thee, wert thou the bedfellow of every hog in Iran. 1. Husein — possibly represents the mystic Teacher or Guru of the poet. The Nubi…
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The Pains and Pleasures of Redemption. 73 But thou art a fool, Habib : thou thoughtest that I was angry with thee. Never, by Allah ! Nor, though He plagueth His lovers, is He ever wroth against them. So eagerly did I kiss every red weal upon thy vel- vet buttocks that thou didst wish thy beating had been prolonged by a whole day. Also, for every peppercorn that did shoot from thy podex, thou hadst a balm. Wise art thou who badest me sell this my garden to buy more pepper therewithal.6 Repine not, therefore, O man ! at the chastise- ments of All…
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…27 Then, when thou hast Him, cease to speculate— Who hath the How is careless of the Why.4 So I, Habib, thy podex sodomize ; With simple art the Mullahs I defy To analyse the mystery ; nor care So long as I am in the galaxy Of sevenfold Suraiya ; El Qahar Lifteth his member evermore5 on high. So doth wise El Qahar to El Qahar The fool by El Qahar the bard reply. 1. Suraiya. — the Pleiades. 2. Hell. 3. The passage in brackets is certainly spu- rious. We retain it as shewing the ingenuity of in- terpretation employed in this class of literature. …
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… he is king, greater than two-hoared Alexander,2 assuaging its desire. Holy is this member and bringeth peace to thy podex ; to him thou art faithful, like a child to its mother’s breast, assuaging thy desire. Terrible is my member to thy podex, causing him to tremble, but also he is dear ; strong he is and proud, like a peacock spreading his splendour in the sun, assuaging thy desire. [persian] Ba My member hath created thy podex ; he hurteth thee with a delicious pain, and pictureth thy podex as a beautiful garden, wherein like a young child …
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…o- dex-muscle upon the member of El Qahar, that thou hast no remembrance of any circumstance connected with my personality or thine, but art completely absorbed by the act ? It causes me to remember an antient folly and blasphemy spoken to me — Allah purify mine ears ! — by a certain Sufi, who, being excessively drunk, had lost control over his tongue. For he said that in a certain holy meditation both Allah and himself were destroyed, and that nought re- mained, but only the consciousness of bliss.1 This is contrary to reason, for how can blis…
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110 Ecstasy master of circumstance. XXIX THE MIRAGE Thou art perfect, Habib, in love ; for yesterday when as a test of thy virtue I had thee beaten by the eunuchs, there was no cry of pain. Entirely lost in our love, thy knowledge was only of my member, and not of the blows ; nor could any application of the staves, however vigorous, take away from thee that delight thou hast in me. Thou wast indeed unconscious of thy beating, crying only : “ Press harder and deeper, O mas- ter ! ”, though my member was entirely remote from thy podex, being eng…
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…he fame of Ecstasy the redemption of the World. Light springs and liberty is fair— o break the intoxicating jar ! It is enough that thou art Near, the shamer of the foolish Far, To glut thy jasmine podex on the member of thine El Qahar ; To glut thine almond member in the podex of thine El Qahar. 1. Riddle. In the Persian are perhaps concealed some details of the Poet’s life and amours. 2. Azrael — angel of death ; Israfel — of the last Judgement, bear respectively a sword and a trum- pet. We have taken Azrael though modern Per- sians usually (…
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54 The Infidelity and Ingratitude of Man. VIII. The Whore Art thou one or many,1 Habib ? Surely thou hast need to be a thousand, since thou hast taken to prostituting thyself to Hindus and Afghans, Nu- bian slaves and immodest boys from Bushir.2 When they saw thee of old, with thy tunic hang- ing upon thy jutting buttocks, like the flowing dra- peries of the Caliph’s tent, men said of thee : “ The complexions of the women are well shaded from the sun.” Now it is thin and transparent, that tun- ic of thine, and people are saying : “ Please Allah…
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…love before them all. Them the of- ficers rush in and lead us before the Qazi.2 But while I am punished, thou, the author of my offence, art bidden to sup. Go not, O sweet Ha- bib ! that ass-calibred Jew3 is as unsuited to thy tender podex as the elephant to the nightin- gale. By Allah, I say, go not ! ’twere shame, when thou returnest, that thou shouldest seem to thine El Qahar like Hatim Tai’s4 tunic to that Allah- forgotten hunchback5 Ali Bukhti.6 1. To break wind is the worst breach of good taste possible to a Musalman. Witness the famous s…
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…ng. 1. Mirrikh. Mars the planet. 2. I have often seen Mars — in the Red Sea es- pecially — with its apparent diameter something like a quarter that of the moon, and its brightness sufficient to wake me, who am the soundest of sleepers. Thus seen for the first time it is a stu- pendous and astounding phenomenon. 3. i.e. with a circular motion. The art of working the hips in coition, called by the Romans Ars Cris- sandi (Ars Cevendi in the case of a boy. Ed.) is in the East as complex and profound as that of mu- sic. It requires as much study as …
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The Shame of the Prodigal. 69 thy feet. Thou art no longer cheerful ; Laila in the night bade me observe that in thy song, which thou sangest to the eunuchs, there was a note of pain. Is it because thou hast not eaten for three days that thou hast lost thy good spirits ? Or wast thou ashamed, shooting the peppercorns ?3 No, by Allah, for thou hast no shame. It may be because I have clothed the male ass of Abdullah the tailor in costly trappings and made him pass throughout the whole city in charge of the pimp Mohammed Shaib the Maghraby4 saying…