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from the feet of the newly-come hordes of spring, and the 
murmur of water has revealed thousands of bright secrets to the 
of i et l 
minds. All he:ven has renewed its bond with this earth, by 
granting her young life. Those Celestial Fathers, the seven 
planets,' and =e four elements who are the Terrestrial Mothers, 
have again come together in wedlock, aaa — telluric brides have 
made a fresh albapie with the astral sphere 
The Leh of growth have created a alent fair forms in the world’s 
workshop. 
The tongue of the new-grown plants ape with mute 
signs sd dour and hypocritical circle of hermits, saying :— 
“Oh recluse! the bad Spaegiks and art thon Ciel still ? 
The wind is broke Ge and art thon halted in thy hut still ? 
In the bosom of the hille the heat of the sun has boiled a thousand 
springs, fee art thou cold still 
The tongues of the leaves of the he eart-entrancing trees, in 
song suited to this season, have chorused the following chant to 
the dull ears of those who cower in the corner of austerity :-— 
The sun, whose bounty grants the Seed i perer? has yielded the fruit 
Yields fresh sweetmeats from a smokeless fire. 
It is known to, and well observed by, people of wisdom and 
preception, how much, the pity and compassion of the holy beings 
of the World-Above increase tow ards the dust-soiled dwellers of 
enters the Vernal Equinox. How many a humble prayer of these 
holy supplicants at the Throne of God will be accepted by t 
Eternal Being in return for the various favours He has phoweral 
on them! How many a meek petition will be heard at the Thresh- 
hold of Grandeur ! 
Let not my head alone be lowly bowed in prayer. 
But rather let every hair of my body prostrate itself, 
In this ving th season and joyous happy time, when the 
nostrils of all living things are perfumed by the odours of Our 
Royal Justice nbs She organ of smell of earth’s creation is scented 
by the sweet savours of Our Kingly Equity, when all things neces- 
sary for general rejoicing are made ready and the doors of light- 
heartedness lie open before us, when Fortune hourly brings favour- 
able intelligence of victory to Our Kar that ever hears glad tidings, 
when the Sky out of its favour continually grants good news of 
Our Conquests to the auricle of all the world, at such a time the 
King- Protected messenger of ‘Abd® ’Ilah Khan § reached Our Heaven- 


: The aed the Moon, Mars, Mercury, pee Venus, an 
2A kind of oratorical syllepsis. The word fruit is Se first m: metaphori- 
cally and thats literally. There appears to te no term in Arabic Rhetoric for 
uncommon 
gure 
ere were two Uzbaks, in Akbar’s time, of the name A‘bdt’llah 
