Muntakhab al-tawarikh 350: CXXXIX. MANZARI OF SAMARQAND.

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He is a pleasing poet. He was at Agra in the service of Bairam Khan and designed an epic Book of Kings, and completed the versification of several of the incidents to be included in it.
We dwell wherever grief and toil are heaviest, Our place is wherever affliction and anguish are greatest. Despite all the misery which we endure in our grief for her She who is anxious concerning our hereafter desires our death. We wander in the desert of grief for her, and the only shade that we have Is that of our black lot which accompanies us in such days as these. Thou didst say to Muqimi coquettishly, ‘I care for nobody.’ Aye, aye ; with thy beauty how shouldst thou care for me ? ”