LXIX: 'Tis grief and sorrow--joy and gladness, that affect…

'Tis grief and sorrow--joy and gladness, that affect so deeply;
But like as they are excessive, even so they pass away.

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The vicissitudes of fortune assume such manifold forms.

So many things will happen--so many incidents befall,
As may never have entered the thoughts of thine heart.

In absence, there is sorrow on account of the beloved,
That, continually, encircleth and besetteth the afflicted heart.

But whatsoever hath vanished from the eyesight away,
That, too, at last, becometh forgotten by the heart.

Let them that ridicule the words of Khushhal, beware!
Perhaps they may themselves full soon like him become.