Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 120 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 120: what you’re looking at
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# Page 94: Running Prose from "Salaman and Absal" This is a page of running verse text from a work titled "Salaman and Absal." The passage describes a dramatic scene in which a character devises a plan involving fire and annihilation. Two figures—Salaman and a female character (referred to as "Her")—enter a central flame together, but a Sage has secretly orchestrated events so that the flame, guided by divine will, reduces the woman to ashes while leaving Salaman untouched. The final lines employ alchemical or metaphorical language, suggesting that base metals burn away while "authentic Gold" is purified and returned to itself. The page includes decorative ornamental elements typical of Victorian printing.
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4 ae 94, SALAMAN AND ABSAL. aa ee ee ee cee Se Into Annihilation, he devis’d, Gather’d, and built; and, firing with a Torch, Into the central flame Axpsit and He | Sprung hand in hand exulting. But the Saaz | In secret all had order’d ; and the Flame, | Directed by his self-fulfillmg Wut, Devouring Her to ashes, left untouch’d SaLAMAN—all the baser metal burn’d, And to itself the authentic Gold return’d. | | (C(O) MIGDoOo <S 4(CO) mn