Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: On The Death Of His Mistress, By Abu Saher Alhedily

ON THE DEATH OF HIS MISTRESS. BY ABU SAHER ALHEDILY. DOST thou wonder that I flew Charmed to meet my Leila's view? Dost thou wonder that I hung Raptured on my Leila's tongue?— If her ghost's funereal screech Through the earth my grave should reach, On that voice I loved so well My transported ghost would dwell: If in death I can descry Where my Leila's relics lie, Saher's dust will flit away, There to join his Leila's clay.