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…e laws of Nature, break Qismat’s insufferable boom, Incense the mountain and the plain. sufflate the forest and the combe Eternally with love, with love, with love, 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 !
132 Satisfaction excludes speculation. I do not care, for love is all ; one moment lent to mullah-talk Is lost to love ; and why complain when nothing is at all amiss ? The folk that haunt the evil house of Fatma to Ha- kim6 resort Wisely indeed : Thy drugs ! they cry : we cannot make a shift to piss !7 The Zahid still frequents the mosque and moans the dreary Fatihah : O fools ! ye miss love’s podex-joy, and missing love all good ye miss. Come, O Habib, thy podex close on El Qahar’s enamoured tool ! Though we mistake the world and God, at leas…
…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 love, and crimson streams the sunset past ; Hyacinthine glows the vault of night, the Future certain, sure to last. Accept the gold of noon that pours its white-hot flood, its radiant blast !
128 The ruling passion strong in death. XXXVII THE CRANE What if our pleasures prove the bane Of this thy lover’s shuddering brain ?1 Some evil Jinn may haunt the fane ; Some serpent hurt the sugar-cane ; Some rot infect the golden grain ! Nay, though my flesh grow boil and blain, Each sinew cramp, each muscle sprain, Each link dissolve of Nature’s chain, Each nerve disrupt in thoughts inane,2 Each function abdicate its reign, I care not, so this love remain. Dead or alive, insane or sane, The perfect passion of us twain Shall bring us blessing…
…Religion. XXVIII THE POTTER The dew is on the rose ; behold The sun illume them with his gold ! My dew is on thy rose ; what Light Their love with rapture doth enfold ? They are immune from Life and Death ; From heat 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 delusion…
Introduction 17 even rapturous piety he joins a passionate love for the pleasures of the table and the bed : and the reader will I think grant him both acuteness of in- tellect and elegance of diction. It is instructive : indeed, beyond all comparison better than the laborous and pedantic exposition I had conceived it my duty to attempt : it gives the inside view, and references to the scholars and paederasts who have previously enlarged on this fascinating topic : the style is impassioned and the matter impeccable. I therefore turn my readers …
The First Joy of Union. 75 XVI THE JASMINE-JAR I am a bearded and a turbaned sar ;1 Thou art a boy more lovely than a star. Thou art mine own ; I beat thee sore indeed : More than thy beauty do I love the scar. I mocked thee, shamed thee. Men despise thee now. Well, it is well ! they come no more to mar Our loves ; we’ll wing through universal space, Borne in the moon’s chryselephantine car. Nor shall the bounds of heaven nor the walls Of Allah’s house to love be bond or bar.2 Nor shall the Thee make mischief with the Me, The Near be interrupte…
18 Introduction I love when I love my God ; and yet in this love I find light ; an inner voice, a perfume, a savour, an embrace of a kind which does not leave the inmost of myself. There in the depths of the soul glows something which is not in space : there a word is heard which has no syllables : thence there breathes a perfume which no breezes waft away : there food is always savoured and never eaten : there are embraces which never ask to end...” 3. The few who still suppose that Omar Khayyam was a libertine should read the exposition of Bo…
110 Ecstasy master of circumstance. XXIX THE MIRAGE Thou art perfect, Habib, in love ; for yesterday when as a test of thy virtue I had thee beaten by the eunuchs, there was no cry of pain. Entirely lost in our love, thy knowledge was only of my member, and not of the blows ; nor could any application of the staves, however vigorous, take away from thee that delight thou hast in me. Thou wast indeed unconscious of thy beating, crying only : “ Press harder and deeper, O mas- ter ! ”, though my member was entirely remote from thy podex, being eng…
62 The Falsity of the Frank. XI. Aziz1 Of what have I sung, Habib ? Of thy love. Of what do I sing now ? Of thy faithlessness. Thy presence or absence makes no difference, therefore, to me. In the same way, whether Allah be or be not is little odds so long as His devotees enjoy the mystic rapture.2 Yet as the podex of Aziz is inferior to thy podex,3 both because it has two fistulae, and because it lacks thy heat, dryness, and tightness, so also is the god of the Christians inferior to Allah, both be- cause he has two cogods, and because he hath…
…ypress-breasted boys of birth, attend the coming of the gloom ! Expose your breasts of jasmine, show your lily buttocks all abloom ! Let Love awake, and blush, as Love comes glimmering from the starry womb, With standing member all aglow, purpled with cloth from Rapture’s loom. O tulip cheeks ! O lips of rose ! the joy of Allah ye assume, Rejoicing in the luscious play, the slippery splendour of the spume Cast from the holy hiding-place for ever till the day of doom. Rejoice, O podex, in thy strength ! thy spasms like the stars illume Earth’s d…
… ravish thee from me ? I see the camel check and kneel, Vanquished by dread of the Unknown, appalled by fear of the Unseen ! To Death is Love inpregnable ; to Love seems Death desirable, Fixing the lightning flash of life and making per- mament the scene. The Zahid looks from Life to Death ; The Sufi gath- ers Death from Life ; Thy podex ’twixt thy buttocks lies, the Future and the Past between. The Sufi pierces, gains and holds the Present ; can the present fade ? Never ! through all the seas of time fares on the prow erect and keen.3 The keel…
The fame of Ecstasy the redemption of the World. 151 Rampant within thy podex take this member, stiffer than a mast. Lively as love itself, supreme in pride, stupendous in the vast ! Even the present gold 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 wo…
…form that one Seeing it, might be well content to die. [So Allah blazes brighter than the noon ; No water stains His spotless unity. His love once hold thee, He will never loose ; But shake with rapture to the utmost “ I ” ; The perfume of His love is wonderful, And tender is He as a virgin’s eye, While for His beauty are no words of earth, Nor can the heavens this need with song supply.]3 So thou with Allah, man ! hold Him as dear (Nay, dearer !) as the apple of thine eye.
…e my tool doth entertain. I speak the truth ; falter, nor feign, Seeing my camel on the plain Girt for the Journey ; spared or slain, My love’s no moon to wax and wane. Allah our love with mercy sain ! Then death’s a splendid window-pane Through which I look the world to explain. Give me the Cup ! it’s wine I’ll drain, Thy podex to my member strain, And thrust, and pull, and writhe amain :— Thrill through each raptured dying vein That El Qahar’s dissolving brain Be of his Destiny the bane ! 1. Can this be a reference to the Western su- perstiti…
…d to frequent by gate ! They catch a glimpse of thee upon the roof :— By fixed Necessity they masturbate !1 But thou and I are free,2 as love is free ; We smoke and drink and smile, content to wait.3 The Zahid-sage is bound by dogma’s chain, Looks up and worships—let the donkey prate ! The wine-drawer and his beloved boy Unite above in the ecstatic state. Nor doth the Sufi need a heaven in Heaven :— Earth’s heaven to who hath God to heart for mate ! And if at first thy virgin podex bled4— He smiteth, for He is compassionate ! O Zahid, hear thou…
…and regret we quash ; we banish traitor hope and fear ; The present ecstasy is all, the Middle Path, the Golden Mean. An He endure, then 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 i…
…ugh for many days thou hadst drunk nothing but water, thou didst comport thyself as one in whom the wine first blu- sheth.2 Also when my love revived for thee a little, thou didst not immodestly thrust out thy buttocks, and show bare a gaping and hungry podex. On the contrary, thou wast like a young girl, and there was much shame when thy hand led the camel to the well.3 Also there was embarrassment for thee when I bade thee act as thou didst act with thy Nu- bian ; since if thou didst too well, I should re- proach thee with wantonness ; but if…
…custom. In Egypt the rising of Sirius heralded various obscene religious festivals. Our own view is that the best signal for beginning a love-affair is the rising of — but no matter ! 5. Shaitan — Satan. It is however a generic name for an evil spirit. 6. Lion. The Persian, with the Scot and the Cingalee, claims a lion for his emblem.
…........... 81 IX. — The Cherry-Tree ........................... 84 XX. — The Qazi ....................................... 87 XXI. — The Love-Potion ............................ 89 XXII. — The Forehead-Writing ................... 91 XXIII. — Mirrikh ......................................... 93