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The Scented Garden
THE SCENTED GARDEN OF ABDULLAH THE SATIRIST OF SHIRAZ
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The Scented Garden
TRANSLATED FROM A RARE INDIAN MS. BY THE LATE MAJOR LUTIY AND ANOTHER THE SCENTED GARDEN OF ABDULLAH THE SATIRIST OF SHIRAZ LONDON : PRIVATELY PRINTED 1910
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Satisfaction excludes speculation. 131 XXXVIII THE GARDEN1 I have a porcelain jasmine-jar deep stained with crimson—blood, I wis ! And in my garden do I lie, my garden full of clema- tis. Above me sing the birds, around the rose and lily blush and pale ; Mine is a bower of eglantine, my couch of lilac and nargis. The cup of wine is in my hand ; the slaves await the master’s word ; My huqqa2 smoke to heaven curls, laden with maddening cannabis.3 I feel upon my jasmine-jar these eyes ; this brain its beauty knows, Its perfume roused to ecstasy by…
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…e, the lily all abloom. Love me, your poet ; pass the night from twilight gloom to twilight gloom At podex-play with El Qahar within his Garden of Perfume !
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64 The Wages of Sin. XII THE APPLES In my garden are seven kinds of apples1 ; and there are seven kinds of louse2 on the once velvet buttocks of my Habib. The smooth whiteness is now become a red roughness ; he is spotted like a leper. He is no more fit for the desire of a clean man ; even his seducers, the black-skinned swine ! having found a boy with tulip cheeks and coralline ; and a bosom of jessamine ; and eye- brows like Karenian3 bows for beauty of line ; and breath like wine ; and buttocks fair and firm and fine ; and a podex like a rub…
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…22 XXXVI. — Suraiya ...................................... 126 XXXVII. — The Crane .................................. 128 XXXVIII. — The Garden ................................ 131 XXXIX. — The Bargainings ......................... 134 XL. — The Namings .............................. 137 XLI. — The Riddle .................................. 150 XLII. — Bagh-i-Muattar ........................... 153
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…THE FUNDAMENTAL BASIS OF MY PHILOSOPHY I DEDICATE THIS BOOK IN MEMORY OF THE MANY HAPPY HOURS THAT WE HAVE SPENT TOGETHER IN THE SCENTED GARDEN “ ALAIN LUTIY ” TO THE MEMORY OF MY COLLEAGUE “ ALAIN LUTIY ” TRUE FRIEND, POLISHED SCHOLAR, GOOD SPORTSMAN, GALLANT SOLDIER, AND CIVIL GALLANT, I WHO HAVE DONE SO LITTLE TO COMPLETE HIS LABOURS DEDICATE MY SHARE THEREIN ON THIS OCCASION OF OFFERING THEIR RESULT TO THE WORLD.
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Ecstasy to content the mystic, without scientific, 113 enquiry into its nature. Pantheism. The garden quit ? Frequent the mosque ? By Allah, ’twas an ass that brayed. Allah, if Allah be, indwells All beauty.3 He is best repaid By who loves jade as jade, nor asks Some mighty Jaker for the Jade.4 The garden-podex wants, methinks, No worship, but a member-spade.5 1. The Sodom-fable is to be found in the XVth chaper of the Q’uran. Moslems accept the Bible, so far as it goes. Only they regard the Christian as the Christian regards the Jew : as one n…
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…becomes (to the Per- sian mind, at least) intensely ludicrious. As in the story of the King who climbed the wall (in the other “ Scented Garden ”. Ed.) where this form of jest is carried to its limit. 3. Unbeliever, i.e., the Christian, who ranks in Islam with the idolater and the polytheist.
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…t and hunger, thirst and cold. The worn ascetics1 of the mosque Guess not what joy the ages hold. Seek we the tavern and the stream, The garden and the grassy wold ! No potter fashioned thee, o man ! ’Tis thou that didst the Potter mould. From Fear grew Hell, from Hope sprang Heaven ; From Love our Ecstasy untold.2 Those are delusions, slow to live, This hath no death, the iron-souled. [Therefore the podex of Habib To pierce am I, thy lover, bold.]3 Only from weariness of love Was death’s unholy camel foaled.4
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…hy desire. [persian] Ba My member hath created thy podex ; he hurteth thee with a delicious pain, and pictureth thy podex as a beautiful garden, wherein like a young child he may play, assuaging thy desire. My member pardoneth the infidelities of thy po- dex ; he conquereth its resistance, and giveth pearly dew, like the stars to the roses, assuaging thy desire. Beautiful is my member as it openeth thy podex, and allwise to know every secret recess thereof, holding it on its stiffness like a lion thrust through by a spear, assuaging thy desire.
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…hen love endures : — so El Qahar will ever sing, Till he the world from milk of prayer to wine of me- ditation wean.7 Like peacocks in a garden spread our thousand eyes of jewel-sheen ; Though squawking with an eunuch’s voice, our paederastic plumes we preen.8 For voice is sound, and dies with air ; light is co- excellent with God9 ; As Hate’s a poison for delight, so love’s a physic for the spleen. And El Qahar is Truth, and nought but Allah stuffs his gaberdine,10 And Allah windeth he about with tarband gemmed11 of gold and green.12
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…norhyme, so that we had perhaps better say nothing. Ed.) 5. This perhaps refers to a posture of coition described in the other “ Scented Garden.” The lady is hung from the roof by a belly-band, while her husband (let us hope) stands on a stool, and swings her to and fro, catching her vulva from be- hind on his penis. This is continued until emis- sion. The true sportsman refrains from guiding ei- ther the lady or his penis with his hands. The length of the swing should not be less than 4 or 5 feet ; under these rules the game is excel- lent. Wi…
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The Results of Sin. 57 wineskin ; in three years thou wilt be as foul as thy Nubian. Come into my garden, boy ! with true love and pure, with open air and swift riding thou mayest regain thy beauty. Then wilt thou be grateful to El Qahar, and faithful, if thou canst be faithful. The camel that hath learnt to bite furiously8 — only Allah and the muzzle9 avail. 1. [Persian text] : Hakim — doctor, not to be confused with [Persian text] Hakim — official. 2. Wolf’s Tail — the false dawn or Zodiacal Light. 3. One M.S. omits the sentence, and finishes…
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31 Yes, we are a goodly company, the blest ; our lives are spent in sunny gardens and yours in sub- terranean sewers ; we are so blissful that we rarely notice you ; when we do, it is to say : God have mercy upon these blind and miserable slaves, and bring them out into His light and joy and liberty ! Wherefore I pray Him (Oh thou all-loving, all transcending God !) that should this essay fall (as seed by the wayside) into the hands of the young that they may dwell with us in the Heaven which is Here and Now, and (after) in the Palace which of …
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…her lifetime) and designate him only by his chosen non de plume, Alain Lutiy. Ed.] 1. The two books have nothing in common but the name. Garden is the almost universal glyph for a book of mystic lore, and Perfume for divine chr- ism. The Arab book is a treatise on the various methods of copulation, plus some obscene stories, and a collection of prescriptions against impotence, pregnancy, and the like. 2. St. Augustine can find no better symbols than El Haji to express his love for God. “ What is it then, that I love, O my God, when I love you ?…
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…ed by a whole day. Also, for every peppercorn that did shoot from thy podex, thou hadst a balm. Wise art thou who badest me sell this my garden to buy more pepper therewithal.6 Repine not, therefore, O man ! at the chastise- ments of Allah ! Each of these will He a thousand- fold repay. And the pain that I suffered at thine infidelities is well repaid by this thy love restored. Thou shalt never leave the side of El Qahar, and Laila shall be sold to Haroun the goatfaced Jew.7 1. [Persian text] the word used here “ has the value of 180, which is …
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…or indifference. Frequently it treats of other matters, such as the delights of the season of Spring, the beauties of the flowers of the garden, and the tuneful notes of the nightingales as they warble their melodies among the rose bushes ; the joys resulting from wine and hilarity, are most particularly noticed at the same time ; the whole interspersed with an occasional pithy allusion to the brevity of human life, and the vanity of sublunary matters in general. The more orthodox among the Musulman are rather scanda- lized at the eulogies best…
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