Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 114 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 114: what you’re looking at
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# Page 88 of "Salaman and Absal" This is a text page from a Victorian narrative poem or tale. It opens with an italicized lyrical passage about undivided being and transcendent love, followed by prose verse describing the Shah's despair upon learning of lovers' flight and his pursuit through magical means. The Sage-Vizyr creates a magic mirror to aid the search, described as resembling "the bosom of All-wise Intelligence." The page appears to be mid-narrative, advancing a romantic plot involving pursuit and supernatural intervention.
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‘* League on league, one yet should never “ See the face of Man; for ever There to gaze on my Belovéd; ‘* Gaze, till Gazing out of Gazing “ Grew to Being Her I gaze on, “SHE and I no more, but in One “ Undwided Being blended. All that is by Nature twain Fears, or suffers by, the pain ‘* Of Separation : Love is only “ Perfect when itself transcends ‘* Itself, and, one with that it loves, “In undivided Being blends.” WHEN by and by the SHAH was made aware Of that heart-breaking Flight, his royal robe _ He chang’d for ashes, and his Throne for dust, And wept awhile in darkness and alone. Then rose; and, taking counsel from the Sage, | Pursuit set everywhere afoot: but none Could trace the footstep of the flying Deer. Then from his secret Art the Sage-Vizyr A Magic Mirror made; a Mirror like The bosom of All-wise Intelligence Eke : 88 SALAMAN AND ABSAL. (C(O) MIGDoOo KS a (CO) mn