He says to the Shah, "Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky."

"I have abode consequences often enough in the course of my life.

Let her fulfil her mission, and complete The consecration of our father's house, Me to their purified abode restore, And place upon my brow the ancient crown!

"And verily it came to pass that one day, entering my humble abode-room, I saw a plague-rat lying suffering from in extremis and about to give up ghost.