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The kiss of consciousness, Human and Divine. 85 If beautiful Habib plays ‘ kir ’4 or ‘ kun ’, And El Qahar the wise plays ‘ kun ’ or ‘ kir ’. Only we know that we in Him are dead, And that the Far is buried in the Near. Thus like a cherry-blossom is our life Floating unwetted on the moon-white mere.5 It is no time to sing ; for from the house Comes forth the bride Habib, sans prince or peer ; Unique Habib, who walketh like a cat, Sitteth, a swan, and runneth like a deer. His face is like the moon that shines upon The labouring Hajj,6 its camel-…
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…d and white, the Moment ever fleeting fast, Surrendered never ! this delight the Venus-throw hath surely cast.3 Jehannum shall exclaim “ Habib ! ” and light inform its murky fire, Entrancing all the ghouls4 to love, waking the Shaitans to desire ! Rejoicing souls in Paradise shall spurn the Hur al Ayn5 with ire, Opening their lips in pangs of woe, offering their souls in pawn to hire ! Men from the utmost desert lands shall spur their steeds through sand and mire, Even to look upon the face immortal from this lewdly lyre. Perfect, Habib, my mag…
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…n. 93 XXIII MIRRIKH1 Like Mars, red planet of the evening, Rising o’er breasts of tender earth in spring, So gleams thy podex, beautiful Habib, My brother and my lover and my king ! For Mars is like a rose and ball of fire2 ; For Mars is like a serpent with its sting. There is a pain, an ecstasy, a woe, A joy, athrob within the wondrous thing. The dull and boneless devotees of twat— Leave them to grovel ; we are well a-wing. Yet twitch that podex, like the wandering way Of Mars within the everlasting ring.3 So shall my member, like the nighting…
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…h’s sole heaven is hell ! A thousand times a night the Fatihah3 Did I recite — my member did not swell. Once for a night I slept with my Habib — A thousand times that member rose and fell !4 Love and not worship is the key of life ; Silence, not prayer, the universal spell. For while I knelt, how could I clasp Habib ?5 And while I prayed, how kiss ? Adorable And perfect boy, thy podex serves alike My member both to challenge and to quell ! So say the Sufis ; Allah wakes desire For Him, and grants it, Life is like a shell That rouses echoes of s…
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God’s constant affection. 89 XXI THE LOVE POTION Whoso hath fair Habib to sing and play1 May scoff at all the jinseng of Cathay.2 That naked podex knows a sacred spell To exorcise the Jinn that bring decay. One glance, one touch, and acorn springs to oak— God sees the daystar, and invokes the day. If Suleiman3 with all his concubines From dusk to dawn consecutively lay, Yet at thy buttock’s velvet, O Habib, That man would rise erect from mudded clay. Bid thou the Qazi to thine house ; I ween That he would sprout a member on the way. Or didst th…
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…costly trappings and made him pass throughout the whole city in charge of the pimp Mohammed Shaib the Maghraby4 saying : “ I go to fetch Habib from the House of El Qahar as a beautiful bride to this my master Khar-i-zakar-i-asal.5 The people of this city are laughing, Habib ; it is at thee ! Even thy Nubian called out in the ba- zaar : “ Beware, O presumptuous one ! Remember the ass that fell into the pit ! ”6 I love thee, Habib ; and that none the less that thou hast cured me of my folly for thee. I am the master, and thou the slave. See to it…
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…my imagination, I tasted the bliss of Allah ; and withdrawing, beheld Night and the Void like an hollow vortical shell.5 But it was only Habib’s podex ;6 and EL QAHAR would rather pos- sess Habib’s podex than the universe. 1. I am alone responsible for these capital summaries ; but a well known lady mystic in Lon- don assures me that they are just. 2. [Persian text] satirist, not to be confused with [Persian text] pilgrim. 3. El Qahar — The Conqueror — Abdullah’s ‘ Takhallus ’ or cognomen qua poeta. 4. Common symbols for member and po- dex. See…
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…ossess an immense horn.1 Also there is a great bird which, when in danger, placeth its head within the sand, exposing its po- dex. Thou, Habib, though otherwise not at all like a bird, dost expose thy podex, even when in no danger.1 I cannot but think that all this was in the mind of the Mullah, when in his sermon on Friday he reproached us openly with beastliness. It is true that no beast does anything in the hope of receiving money ; it is in my mind to take an hundred dinars2 to this one-eyed dotard, so that the orthodox of Shiraz may speak …
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60 The Reproaches of God. X. The Black Stone I have kissed the black stone of the Ka’abah,1 O Habib ! but a thousand times the black mole upon thy buttocks. I have seen a thousand men kiss the black stone of the Ka’abah ; but I hear that the pilgrims to thy house are even more numerous than the Hujjaj.2 Omar3 was an ass ; but he is buried—Allah curse him ! — at El Medinah ; only those with members like an ass find any permanent resting place in thy mosque. His4 member is firmer than a rock, sayest thou ? But I will bottle and drown him.5 It is …
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…s 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 ruby mine ; ha…
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66 The Pangs of Repentance. XIII THE BLIND BEGGAR Thou hast come back to me, Habib ! but in sooth thou art a sorry sight ! Fifteen1 years since thy birth in Iran ; yet thy flesh hangs on thee like his old clothes on Abdullah2 the blind beg- gar. Seven days did the barber and the druggist toil upon thee ; but thy foulness clings like musk. Also I have been put to great charges for thee, having shut thee up to purge and salivate.3 But oh ! how that droopeth that was straighter than a young palm ! Furthermore thou poutest, bemoan- ing thy Nubian t…
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The Falsity of the Frank. 63 “ conscious communion with God on the part of an atheist ” — and so on. 3. Again Habib represents Allah ; the constant interchange is very confusing, and to Western minds a great blemish on the poem. But the chil- dish subtlety of the Eastern mind regards this as a “ veil ”, preventing the unbeliever from penetrating the allegory. 4. Q’uran CXII. Cf. Browning (Ring and Book, The Pope) for these 3 qualities. 5. Affirms the subjective value of Devotion.
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68 The Shame of the Prodigal. XIV THE COMPARISONS O Habib, I have compared thy figure to the cy- press, and to a thousand other beautifully shapen things. Also I have said that thine eyes were like the sun for splendour ; and like the gazelle’s eyes for depth and softness ; many other things very well composed have I sung concerning thee.1 I have even compared the perfume of thy podex to that of the rose, and I take Allah to witness that this is not so, except by favour of Him in whom all is One.2 I was faithful and diligent in love, and worshi…
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…on. The passage means accord- ing to Mahbub that El Qahar will not use a leather dildo, but his own stalwart member, upon the po- dex of Habib ; but I prefer to think that he simply means “ I will not beat thee ” i.e. with leather thongs. In all countries beating is jestingly spoken of as “ payment.” Besides, the whole ode concerns active punishment, not mere deprivation of plea- sure. (See note to XII. Ed.)
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The Vanity of metaphysic. 127 Then, when thou hast Him, cease to speculate— Who hath the How is careless of the Why.4 So I, Habib, thy podex sodomize ; With simple art the Mullahs I defy To analyse the mystery ; nor care So long as I am in the galaxy Of sevenfold Suraiya ; El Qahar Lifteth his member evermore5 on high. So doth wise El Qahar to El Qahar The fool by El Qahar the bard reply. 1. Suraiya. — the Pleiades. 2. Hell. 3. The passage in brackets is certainly spu- rious. We retain it as shewing the ingenuity of in- terpretation employed in…
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… the cause ! What joy or aid Springs form thy searches for the cause ? Thy cause thou dost to earth degrade, Bounding its nature ; shall Habib’s Delicious podex be displayed To weaklings whose erections lags For them to prate and make parade Of tedious knowledge ? Rather plunge To scabbard the impassioned blade ! Throughout the summer to indulge The sodomitic1 accolade ! Forget, an if thou wilt, the scribe ; The lovely script to heart be laid !2 Describe the script ? The scribe adore ? Perchance his podex is decayed.
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150 The fame of Ecstasy the redemption of the World. XLI THE RIDDLE1 Habib hath heard ; let all Iran who spell aright from A to Z Exalt thy fame and understand with whom I made a marriage-bed ; Resort to tool-and-podex play till all the world in tears is shed Before the sword of Azrael, the trump of Israfel the dread,2 Exalt, exalt our love at last among the living and the dead, Resort to love, and press its purple calix with His purple head, Till fall the pearls with rubies strung, the dews upon the dawn that bled. Crimson, o lover, was our lo…
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… 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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The Pleasure God hath in Man. 47 IV AFLUTIN1 Habib I sing, whose heart-enslaving kun2 Is like a rose on Ruknabad3 in June. Like to the soft throat of a nightingale It throbs and glows—O life-dissolving swoon ! But once my spear hath threaded the djirid,4 It clutches as the dragon grips the moon. Till all is dark but the Unlighted Light,5 And all is still but the Unexampled Tune.5 So, when thou smilest on him, dearest lad, Is El Qahar wiser than Aflatun. 1. Aflatun — Plato. 2. Kun [Persian text] anus. 3. Ruknabad — a streamlet of Persia, near Sh…
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…feel upon my jasmine-jar these eyes ; this brain its beauty knows, Its perfume roused to ecstasy by cunning strain of ambergris.4 Above, Habib my lover hangs ; his podex is the jasmine-jar ; His lips are softly closed on mine, one long unfa- thomable kiss. All, all is rapture ; who would shift one inch all mystery to disclose ? A fool is he who queries Quid ? till baffled by the question Quis ?5