Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 119 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 119: what you’re looking at
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# Page Description This is a text page (page 93) from a Victorian narrative poem titled "Salámán and Absál." The passage is written in verse and describes the tragic fate of a lover named Salámán who, forbidden from his beloved, experiences mounting despair and eventually flees with his companion toward death. The text employs romantic, ornate language typical of Victorian poetry, depicting themes of forbidden love, remorse, and a final escape described metaphorically as a journey through fire. The page contains no illustrations, only decorative corner ornaments framing the printed text.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
SALAMAN AND ABSAL. 93 Yet Ah for that poor Lover! ‘ Next the curse “Of Love by Love forbidden, nothing worse “ Than Friendship turn’d in Love’s reproof unkind, “And Love from Love divorcing ”—Thus I said : Alas, a worse, and worse, is yet behind— Love’s back-blow of Revenge for having fled! SaLAMAN bow’d his forehead to the dust Before his Father; to his Father’s hand Fast—but yet fast, and faster, to his own Clung one, who by no tempest of reproof Or wrath might be dissever’d from the stem She grew to: till, between Remorse and Love, He came to loathe his Life and long for Death. And, as from him She would not be divore’d, With Her he fled again: le fled—but now To no such Island centred in the sea As lull’d them into Paradise before ; But to the Solitude of Desolation, The Wilderness of Death. And as before Of sundry scented woods along the shore A shallop he devised to carry them Over the waters whither foot nor eye Should ever follow them, he thought—so now Of sere wood strewn about the plain of Death, A raft to bear them through the wave of Fire 3 — So OF COMmICcoooks.conn