Basatin al-uns 71.14

71.14

"We have not seen, nor has there been imagined, in him lips of finer coral."
I wished to describe the beauty of her form, but / the memory of her took me out of myself and speech did not remain in the mouth.
In the horoscope of her ascendant, the Almagest-knowing sages and Euclid-unraveling geometricians, after investigating the influences of
the celestial cycles and the requirements of the motion of the planets of heaven, have written thus: that in the garden of hope of whomever this fresh-faced
one smiles, into the casket of the house of whomever this precious pearl settles, the fruit of purpose—the attainment of which was far beyond
the reach of far-sighted thought—shall be placed in the hand of his intent, and every gem of desire whose acquisition
is bound to the endurance of hardships and the witnessing of perils shall be laid in his skirt in the easiest of manners. And like Alexander he shall become
ruler and conqueror over the expanses of sea and land and in the realms of the seven climes; and Solomon-like, human and jinn will depict
from heart and soul the mark of obedience and submission to him like an engraving upon their world-viewing eye; and wild beasts,
game, livestock, and vermin shall not withdraw their heads from the halter of his obedience nor their feet from the circle of his compliance. The dwellers of the dry land
shall apply the dust of his feet to their eyes like kohl, and the inhabitants of the water, out of dread of his lustrous sword, like the lotus
shall cast their heads upon the face of the water. Verse: