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While thirsting for the highest fame, I hunger like the lowest beast: To be the first of men I aim And find myself the least. Now, the Vizier delayed not when he heard this to have a fair supply set before Shibli Bagarag, and meats dressed in divers fashions, spiced, and coloured, and with herbs, and wines in golden goblets, and slaves in attendance.
Shibli Bagarag sighed when he heard the King, and thought to himself, 'How unfortunate is the race of barbers, once honourable and in esteem!
And Shibli Bagarag said, 'Excellent fair show, O mighty one! Yet knew he not in what, but he was abject by reason of the thwacks. So the Vizier said, 'Thou lookest lean, even as one to whom Fortune oweth a long debt. Tell me now of thy barbercraft: perchance thy gain will be great thereby?
Shibli Bagarag would have halted here to breathe the cool refreshingness of the air, but the old woman would not; and she hurried on even to the opening of a spacious Hall, and in it slaves in circle round a raised seat, where sat one that was their lord, and it was the Chief Vizier of the King.
And Shibli Bagarag answered, 'My gain has been great, O eminent in rank, but of evil quality, and I am content not to increase it. And he broke forth into lamentations, crying in excellent verse: Why am I thus the sport of all A thing Fate knocketh like a ball From point to point of evil chance, Even as the sneer of Circumstance?
So be it with thee and thy thwacking, O foolish youth! Hide it from thyself, thou silly one! What! thou hast been thwacked, and refusest the fruit of it which is resoluteness, strength of mind, sternness in pursuit of the object! Now, the promise of food and provision was powerful with Shibli Bagarag, and he looked up gloomily.
While thirsting for the highest fame, I hunger like the lowest beast: To be the first of men I aim And find myself the least. Now, the Vizier delayed not when he heard this to have a fair supply set before Shibli Bagarag, and meats dressed in divers fashions, spiced, and coloured, and with herbs, and wines in golden goblets, and slaves in attendance.
Then they made a motion to some slaves, and presently a clattering of anklets struck the ear of Shibli Bagarag: and he beheld dancing-girls, moons of beauty and elegance, and they danced wild dances, and dances graceful and leopard-like and serpent-like in movement; and the youths flung flowers at them, applauding them.
It seemed to Shibli Bagarag she must fall and be lost; and the sweat started on his forehead in great drops big as nuts. Seeing that and the agitation of his limbs, Gulrevaz cried, 'O Master of the Event, let us hear it! But he shrieked, 'The kite! the kite! she is running up the blade, and the kite is at her eyes! and she swaying, swaying! falling, falling! So the Princess exclaimed, 'A kite!
And Shibli Bagarag answered, 'My gain has been great, O eminent in rank, but of evil quality, and I am content not to increase it. And he broke forth into lamentations, crying in excellent verse: Why am I thus the sport of all A thing Fate knocketh like a ball From point to point of evil chance, Even as the sneer of Circumstance?
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