Potential Titles: Daagh Dehlvi

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Two steps were straight and clear - Dagh "[I met you and the pain of separation was forgot]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

And four forgotten were instead - Dagh "[I met you and the pain of separation was forgot]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

To meet Annihilation's sword - Dagh "[I met you and the pain of separation was forgot]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

My lost tranquility I might regain - Dagh "[O changing Wheel of Fate]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

But separation brings no anodyne - Dagh "[O changing Wheel of Fate]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

Won from me more than stores of gold - Dagh "[O changing Wheel of Fate]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

Give me back the heart thy cruel fingers hold - Dagh "[O changing Wheel of Fate]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

All creatures must cry out - Dagh "[O Weaver of Excuses, what to thee]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

Debarred to things of dust to walk - Dagh "[O Weaver of Excuses, what to thee]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

Permits not my complaint to rise - Dagh "[Thy love permits not my complaint to rise]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

I have erased the record utterly - Dagh "[Thy love permits not my complaint to rise]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

With empty hands all mortal men are whirled - Dagh "[Thy love permits not my complaint to rise]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook


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Hindustani Lyrics on Project Gutenberg. The book is kind of terrible at giving author's names.


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