XXI: In the rolling of thine eyes the universe…

In the rolling of thine eyes the universe may have sunk,
Or its inhabitants may be submerged in the eddies of a flood.

Since they showed no mortification at thy lips and teeth;
Why should not the coral and pearl thus be in ocean engulphed?

I am a cotemporary of the water of those good blades,
Whose eyelashes may ever be in bloody tears submerged.

Good men hold it far preferable to the perspiration of shame,
That they may be swallowed in Aeumman's dark waves.

What would the simpleton and dolt from Mani: acquire,
Though his pencil may be dipped in the rainbow's every hue?

Upon the raft of the bier unto the shore will approach,
The kings who may have sunk in the throne's troubles and cares.

O Shaida! no effort to escape maketh the master-mariner,
Whose eyes may be submerged the ocean of tears within.