Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 78 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 78: what you’re looking at
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# Page Description This is a page of running poetry text from what appears to be a literary work titled "Salaman and Absal" (page 52). The verse, written in ornate Victorian language, presents a mystical meditation on divine unity and human love, addressing God or a beloved figure. The speaker expresses a desire to merge their individual self with an Essential or Divine being, invoking Persian mystical concepts of unity and dissolution of ego. A footnote references Persian mystics' representation of Deity. The ornamental borders and typography suggest this is from a bound Victorian edition rather than a cheap serialized penny dreadful.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Sy SALAMAN AND ABSAL. That glances past us veil’d—but ever so That none the veil from what it hides may know. How long wilt thou continue thus the World To cozen* with the fantom of a veil From which thou only peepest ? I would be Thy Lover, and thie only—l, mine eyes Seal’d in the light of Thee to all but Thee, Yea, in the revelation of Thyself | | Lost to Myself, and all that Self is not | Within the Double world that is but One. | Thou lurkest under all the forms of Thought, | | Under the form of all Created things ; Look where I may, still nothing I discern But Thee throughout this Universe, wherein Thyself Thou dost reflect, and through those eyes Of him whom Man thou madest, scrutinize. To thy Harim DivipvUALity | No entrance finds—no word of Tuts and THAT; | Do Thou my separate and derivéd Self | Make one with thy Essential ! Leave me room | On that Divan which leaves no room for Twain; Lest, like the simple Arab in the tale, I grow perplext, oh God ! ’twixt “Mz” and “Tune ;” ) 1 The Persian Mystics also represent the Deity dicing -with | Human Destiny behind the Curtain. \ aes v GOMGIOOKSHEO