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C. J. Lvall —Translations from the Hamaseh. 
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Love's master was I once and free : but evermore his strength be bent 
to bind me fash, and I to loose, till in the end he mastered me. 
And never saw I like us twain two lovers sundered, she from me, 
and 1 from her, true-hearted still and faithful, spite of all men's hate 
— Two friends that have no hope of converse, meeting never face to face : 
where hast thou seen two loving hearts that looked not for the day of 
j°y ? 
Ham. p. 551. 
Notes. 
Metre Taivil, second form, as in No. II. 
The first line of this poem is not rendered by Ituckert in his version 
of the Hamaseh, as being impossible to express fully in German. The 
difficulty lies in the words en-naqd and el-ihrdm , the former of which 
means the untwisting of the strands of a rope, and the latter the twisting 
of them tight. The verse therefore means—“ Love strove with me to 
twist tight my bonds, while I strove with him to untwist and relax them. 
I was his master at the beginning, but in the end he prevailed over me.” 
v. 3. I. e. “We are lovers who have no hope of delight one in the 
other: and hardly shalt thou see two lovers who look not some day to be 
joined together. Yet we are firm and faithful in our love, though we 
have no hojoe.” 
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A white one: she rises slow, and sweeps with her hair the ground: 
it hides her within its coils, a billow of blackest black. 
She shines in its midst like Dawn that breaks from the farthest East: 
it bends like the darkest Night and veils her above, around. 
Ham. p. 566. 
