LXXXIII: Either let it be a sovereign upon his…

Either let it be a sovereign upon his throne,
Or let it be the poor darwesh of a monastery!

Many there are, who are in the right path--
Would there were a few, like myself, astray!

I am ready, at all times, the work to commence--
Would that my friends were also as ready to begin!

He, whose actions are unbecoming a man,
A man cannot be, but a crazy old crone.

By computation, I have thirty sons, no less
Would that I could a good word for some of them say!

Were there any steps taken for assembling troops--
Every hill and dale with them to profusion teem.

The black and the white are useless in any affair--
Either let all be white, or let all black be.

It is, alas! the gloomy night of woe and sorrow--
Would that the morn of joy and delight would dawn!

Unjust towards Khushhal they would not be,
Were people with the state of the case acquainted.