Basatin al-uns 78.278

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هام الفواد بها وحق له الهوی ولمثلها ابدا یهیم فؤاد أین المفاز5 وقد تملک صهجتی رشا لاسا دالشری یصطاد و خواست تا خویشتن را از غلبهٔ‌ شوق از کشتی بیرون افکند و لنگرآسا در قعر آب غرق کند، حاضران مجلس چون این حال مشاهده کردند بهغایت متحیر و سراسیمه شدند و به ملاحان اشارت راندند تا کشتی را باز به طرف قصر یادشاه رانند و پادشاه را به تخت پایدار برسانند، ملاحان مضمون این اشارت را بهعین انقیاد متلقی گشتند و کشتی را در زیر قصر همایون پادشاه بردند؛ چون زمانی بگذشت و نائرهآ شوق که در سویدای دل او زبانه میزد

The heart wandered madly for her, and passion was its due; / for one like her, a heart wanders madly forever.
Where is the escape, when my soul has been possessed / by a gazelle fawn that hunts the lions of the thicket?
He wished to cast himself out of the boat from the excess of yearning and, like an anchor, drown himself
in the depth of the water. When those present in the assembly observed this state, they became exceedingly astonished and bewildered,
and signaled to the boatmen to steer the boat back toward the king’s palace and bring the king to his enduring throne.
The boatmen received the intent of this gesture with utmost compliance and brought the boat beneath the king's
auspicious palace. When a period of time had passed, and the flare of yearning that was blazing in the core of his heart