Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 21

A virtuous and beauteous youth
Was pledged to a chaste maiden.
I read that in the great sea
They fell into a vortex together.
When a sailor came to take his hand,
Lest he might die in that condition,
He said in anguish from the waves:
-Leave me. Take the hand of my love.-
Whilst saying this, he despaired of life.
In his agony he was heard to exclaim:
-Learn not the tale of love from the wretch
Who forgets his beloved in distress.-
Thus the lives of the lovers terminated.
Learn from what has occurred that thou mayest know
Because Sa-di is of the ways and means of love affairs
Well aware in the Arabian city of Baghdad.
Tie thy heart to the heart-charmer thou possessest
And shut thy eye to all the rest of the world.
If Mejnun and Laila were to come to life again
They might indite a tale of love on this occurrence.