Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 112 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 112: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a page of running prose poetry from what appears to be a Victorian literary work titled "Salámán and Absál." The text describes two characters, Salámán and Absál, discovering a paradisiacal island in the sea—a magnificent garden filled with ornamental birds (peacocks, nightingales, pheasants, doves), fruit trees, and fountains. The passage employs elaborate poetic language comparing the scene to Paradise and an Islamic garden, before concluding that Salámán sees the isle and sits down beside Absál "together like the Lily and the Rose." The page is numbered 86 and includes a footnote reference to an appendix.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
SALAMAN AND ABSAL. a ee Suddenly in mid sea reveal’d itself An Isle, beyond imagination fair ; An Isle that all was Garden; not a Flower, Nor Bird of plumage like the flower, but there ; Some like the Flower, and others like the Leaf; Some, as the Pheasant and the Dove adorn’d With crown and collar, over whom, alone, The jewell’d Peacock like a Sultan shone ; While the Musicians, and among them Chief The Nightingale, sang hidden in the trees Which, arm in arm, from fingers quivering With any breath of air, fruit of all kind Down scatter d in profusion to their feet, Where fountains of sweet water ran between, And Sun and shadow chequer-chased the green. Here [ram-garden seem’d in secresy Blowing the rosebud of his Revelation ;! Or Paradise, forgetful of the dawn Of Audit, lifted from her face the veil. ____ age SaLAMAN saw the Isle, and thought no more Of Further—there with AxBsAt he sate down, ApsaL and He together side by side Together like the Lily and the Rose, : 1 Note in Appendix. : 7 \ $f <0e-_____________- cComuicoooks.com