[1] The Eternal Gardener: so the old inscription saying:--

locatus est in
Homo damnatus est in horto
humatus est in
renatus est in



NOTE II


A few words concerning the Kasidah itself. Our Haji begins with a
_mise-en-scene_; and takes leave of the Caravan setting out for
Mecca. He sees the "Wolf's tail" (_Dum-i-gurg_), the {Greek:
lykauges}, or wolf-gleam, the Diluculum, the Zodiacal dawn-light,
the first faint brushes of white radiating from below the Eastern
horizon. It is accompanied by the morning-breath (_Dam-i-Subh_),
the current of air, almost imperceptible except by the increase
of cold, which Moslem physiologists suppose to be the early
prayer offered by Nature to the First Cause. The Ghoul-i-Biyaban
(Desert-Demon) is evidently the personification of man's fears
and of the dangers that surround travelling in the wilds. The
"wold-where-none-save-He (Allah)-can-dwell" is a great and
terrible wilderness (_Dasht-i-la-siwa Hu_); and Allah's Holy Hill
is Arafat, near Mecca, which the Caravan reaches after passing
through Medina. The first section ends with a sore lament that
the "meetings of this world take place upon the highway of
Separation"; and the original also has:--