Original Persian Text
از تاب رخت دیدۀ من روشن کشت
از روشنئ دیده دلم کلشن کش
کل دیدی و بر دیدۀ من بوسه زدی
از تاب لبت مردمکم رعشن کش
Our reading in Latin letters:
Ez tâb-ı ruḫet dîde-i men rûşen gaşt
Ez rûşenî-i dîde dilem gülşen gaşt
Gül dîdî vü ber dîde-i men bûse zedî
Ez tâb-ı lebet merdümekem raʿşen gaşt
In English
1. From the radiance of your face my eye grew bright; from the brightness of my eye my heart became a rose garden.
2. You saw the rose and set a kiss upon my eye; from the heat of your lip the pupil of my eye began to tremble.
Literary and Historical Commentary
A Persian quatrain found a few pages earlier in the divan is written here anew. The first two lines are almost the same; only the word "aks", reflection, has been replaced by "tâb", radiance, and the verb "şod" changed to "gaşt". The second couplet, however, is wholly new and turns the earlier version's play on the pupil into a scene of love.
This time the beloved sees the rose garden blooming in the heart and sets a kiss upon the lover's eye; from the heat of the lip the pupil trembles. "Merdümek", little man, is the endearing Persian name for the pupil; this little man trembling at the warmth of the lip gives the quatrain an ending both playful and tender. That both versions passed into the divan together shows that Cûdî kept working on his quatrains in a notebook and tried out the same image by tying it to different endings.
Bibliography
- Havva Tok Yıldız, Merzifonlu İbrâhîm Cûdî Dîvânı (İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük) [1b-43a], Master's thesis, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun 2017, p. 124 (poem no. 169; manuscript fol. ). http://libra.omu.edu.tr/tezler/116853.pdf
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