V: Like as absence from the beloved hath made…

Like as absence from the beloved hath made day dark to me,
Let there never be, unto any one, such a dark and lurid day!

Do not be overjoyed, O marplot! on account of my disjunction;
For at last, dark and overcast like this, shall be thy day!

Though constancy may grant to no one the opportunity of association,
The night of separation, at last, shall become the unclouded day!

The spring-time of youth was, than the flowers more pleasant;
But, alas! it was not so very lasting, the constancy of that day!

Draw near, O friend, and honour me with a sight of thee!
For the Almighty hath not in the world created an unchanging day!

Thou that ever puttest off, for to-morrow, the promise of meeting,
Consider what phase may be assumed by to-morrow's day!

The day of delight and pleasure hath passed, as the wind, away--
For how long shall malice on me be vented by trouble's day!

Truly, it will be, at last, like the wind that hath passed away,
This, that I now behold--separation's long, dreary day!

The grief and joy of fortune's changes shall not last for aye:
Verily, O SEPARATED! it shall reach its end, this oppression's day!