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" Oh Taper, yellow-faced, with tearful eye, chief of 



misfortune-overtaken lovers, 

 Farhad of thy time, burn on and melt. 

 Why hast thou separated thyself thus long from sweet 



society (or the society of Stiirin) ? 

 5 Friendship thou hast thrown to the winds : if not, 



why like wretched me, art thou pallid, shedding 



tears, emaciated and bent down ? 



The following translation of a similar effusion, from the 

 Arabic, is from the pen of the ingenious Carlyle 

 " The wasting taper when I see I 

 I cry poor fool our lot's the same 

 I bear a raging fire like thee, 



Yet dread whate'er would quench the flame : > 

 Like thine with tears this face overflows, 

 And bleached and wan these cheeks appear ; 

 Like thine these eyes no slumbers close, 

 Like thine a melting heart is here," 



Bhai uddin Zanjdni Khan, 



This poet was the panegyrist of Shems uddin Khajeh, and 

 noted for the habit of introducing Turkish phrases into his 

 compositions. 



Badakshi. 



A native of Badakshan contemporary with Caliph Makh* 

 tafi. He is the author of a Diwan, 



Bushkir, 



A Persian poet of whom no mention is made by Dowlet 

 Shah. Herbelot cites the following verses of his composi* 

 tion: — 



" Ne vous faites jamais un ennemi sous couleur que vous avez 

 beaucoup d'amis : car entre mille que vous conterez de ceux* 

 ci, a peine s'en trouvera 't il un seul veritable," 



Bhai JamL 



Not the celebrated Jami, was the panegyrist of Khajeli 



