oye GentleIllen Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture

THE DAWÄDÄR'SHUNTING PARTY 309
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Translation
1. Oh gatherer of joy, oh collectorof subtle delight: if you wish
2. to tell stories about hunting with birds, dogs and cheetahs,
3. then listen to the report of one who witnessed and experienced how
birds and gazellesoutwit each other!
4. As we started off - at a time when the meadows lay disclosed and the
necks of all twigswere adorned (with dewdrops)-,
5. a cloud had just emptied its pockets on them, and blossomshad made
their clothes hang down over them,
6. and dew decked their hillswith jewelsthat added to their ornament.
7. You would take the glow of the hill's variegated garments for the
morning sun, which stopped its course to bring forth flowers.60
8. And the wind plays among the necklace of the flowers,once destroying,
once enlivening it.
60 The MS explicitly gives the vocalisation nür, not nawr. To the different forms of wsh'
see Ibn Man~ür, Lisän al-'Arab, (Beimt, 1388/1968), VIII, p. 394: washsha'a 'l-thawba:
raqamahü bi-'alam wa-na/;lwihi... awsha'a 'l-shajara wa 'l-baqla: akhraja zahrahü. . .