12 Bilgrami— Quatrains of Baba Tahir. [No. 1. 
32. 
1. If I am in love with the face of a beloved one, 
2. Restrain me not, as I am the thrall of my heart. 
3. O, Camel-driver ! for God’s sake drive slowly, 
4. For I am a laggard behind this caravan. 
The poet means that he is in love and tells his counsellor not to 
restrain him, as he is in the power of his heart, which carries him 
wheresoever his beloved goes. He begs or beseeches the Camel-driver to 
drive on slowly, so that he may be enabled to catch the caravan by which 
his beloved is travelling, as through weakness he has lagged behind. 
33. 
1. That the picture of thy beauty, Love, may not quit my heart. 
2. That the thought (or image) of thy down and thy mole, Love, 
may not escape 
3. I have made a hedge from my eyelashes round the eyes, 
4. That blood may come and thy image, Love, may not escape. 
The translator has evidently taken the word parchin, a 
hedge, to be purchin , wrinkled, hence the translation “ wrinkled 
eyes. ” The poet says that he has made a hedge out of his eyelashes, in 
order to prevent the thought or image of his beloved from getting out 
as the thorns (the eyelashes) will draw blood, and prevent the escape of 
the thought or image. 
34. 
This is not by Baba Tahir, nor is it of the same metre. 
35. 
1. Of plundered hearts he has more than a thousand, 
2. Of bleeding livers (hearts) he has more than thousands ; 
3. He counted thousands of scars from my wounds, 
4. Yet the uncounted are more than the counted ones. 
Both the forms as well as \are invari¬ 
ably used, as a and ci» are interchangeable letters. Riza Quli Khan, 
in the Majma-ul-Fosaha, makes it etc., but the hamza is 
not required at all, as it becomes nonsense. The word vish should be 
read vishan “ are more in Persian caligi aphy and are 
written alike, the difference being in placing the dot of the eJ. The 
paraphrase of the line in modern Persian will be \j tty J<* 
«>it i.e ., “ plundered hearts with him or in his possession are more 
than a thousand.” All the copies have erred in some way or other, 
and in order to preserve the right scansion, they have altered the lines 
