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[No. 1. 
Bilgrami— Quatrains of Baba Tahir. 
25. 
1. I have a delicate heart like glass. 
2. I fear for it whenever I heave a sigh ; 
3. It is no wonder if my tears are like blood, 
4. I am that tree whose roots are set in blood. 
The poet likens his heart to the glass; it is so fragile that it may 
break even by a sigh. 
In the 3rd line ^ should be substituted for and in the 4th line 
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Id a tree for 
26. 
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1. Had I only one pain (anguish), what should I care ? 
2. And if my sorrows were trifling, what should I care ? 
3. Near my bed, my beloved or my physician, 
4. If either one were present, what should I care P 
Mr. Allen has evidently read the lines in the Persian way and there¬ 
fore remarks that they are “ pure Persian. ” But in Baji the letter pre- 
ceding the f of the 1st person has always a gamma and so the words 
would be pronounced dardum balinum habibum , etc., and 
not (*d)d dardam balinam . It must be observed that the gamma 
represents the pleonastic j\j in such cases. 
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27. 
1. In wailing, my heart is like a flute, 
2. The anguish of thy separation is ever at my heels 
3. I have to burn and be consumed till the day of resurrection. 
4. God only knows when that day shall be. 
The 4th line is sometimes written as ^ o-Ajiwhich 
has been wrongly written as 1*=*., i.e., the scribe has changed the 5 into 
) and b in bji zuna to b ta. The form is the equivalent of the 
Persian which is used in case of doubt. 
28. 
1. When spring comes in every garden there are roses, 
2. On every bough a thousand nightingales ; 
3. I cannot set my foot on every meadow, 
4. Lest there be one more burnt (in heart) than I. 
Note the play upon the words and cbL ; a nightingale is called 
a or Hafiz says: — 
