Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 113 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 113: what you’re looking at
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# Penny Dreadful Page Analysis This is a text page from the narrative portion of a Victorian penny dreadful, specifically from a work titled "Salámán and Absál." The page presents romantic poetry or prose-poetry describing two lovers in an idealized paradise—together under trees, drinking from fountains, and surrounded by exotic birds and flowers. The text then shifts to a dialogue in which someone questions a character named Wámik about his solitary, melancholic behavior, and Wámik responds that he is meditating on flight with a beloved named Azrá to a remote desert fountain. Footnotes identify Wámik and Azrá as "two typical Lovers." The content emphasizes romantic longing and separation.
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SALAMAN AND ABSAL. Together like the Soul and Body, one. Under its trees in one another’s arms They slept—they drank its fountains hand in hand— Paraded with the Peacock—raced the Partridge— Chased the green Parrot for his stolen fruit, Or sang divisions with the Nightingale. There was the Rose without a thorn, and there The Treasure and no Serpent’ to beware— Oh think of such a Mistress at your side In such a Solitude, and none to chide! Said to WAmixK one who never Knew the Lover’s passion—* Why ** Solitary thus and silent ‘* Solitary places haunting, “ Inke a Dreamer, like a Spectre, ‘* Tike a thing about to die?” WAmIK answer’d— Meditating “ Flight with Azrd? to the Desert : * There by so remote a Fountain * That, whichever way one travell’d, 1 The supposed guardian of buried treasure. ? Wamik and Azra (Virgin) two typical Lovers. — 738 18 | | ? PHF COnnie DOO St CO)