[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawarikh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › 49.1 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 49.1 Muntakhab al-tawārīkh 49.1 - **Language:** Persian ### [49.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.49.1) شه تخت کن محمد که سرادق شرف زد > The month of Dai has arrived, and the air has in consequence become so cold > That nothing save the icy breeze can move from its place. > The earth is cold and frost bound, the air is even colder than the earth, > In very truth the air is chill with the weariness of age. > In the garden the fire of the tulip and Gulnar have died down, > From the cold the (graceful) trees of the garden have become mere sticks. > The water is hard frozen from the cold, and says with petulance, > I will break if anyone places his foot upon my head. > No single bud comes out from its resting place in the heart of the tree, although it wears upon its cypress-like body a cap and mantle. > The bird has ceased its song when it saw the havoc wrought by autumn, > When a general pillage is going on, lamentation is futile. > Seek not for leaves and seed-bearing fruit in the garden, for to-day > The leaves have been scattered by the wind, the seeds remain hidden beneath the earth. > The morning breeze draws every breath like a deep drawn sigh, > Seeing that it has cast to the winds so beauteous a being as the rose. > So far has the rose gone that should you search the East and the West, > You will not find it save in the assembly of the King of the World, > Shah Mahmud from the splendour of whose assemblies, there is eternal spring in the month of Dai, and the world is like Paradise. > He who when he draws up his array, and orders it for battle, The lines of the enemies at the very sight of him pale with terror. > — George S. A. Ranking & W. H. Lowe 1884, Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) - [Previous: 48.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.48.1) - [Next: 50.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.50.1) - [Up: 49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.49) ## Translations (1) - [Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.49.4.1) — George S. A. Ranking & W. H. Lowe 1884, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.49.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.49.1) · Pramāṇa