_Gaily live! for soon will vanish, Biding not, the days of spring!_

[4] The nightingale.

[5] In the original Turkish:

_Dinleh bulbul kissa sen kim gildi eiyami behár!
Kurdi her bir baghda hengamei hengami behár;
Oldi sim afshan ana ezhari badami behár:
Ysh u nush it kim gicher kalmaz bu eiyami behár._

Here we have an example of the _redíf_, which is common
in Turkish and Persian poetry, and "consists of one or
more words, always the same, added to the end of every
rhyming line in a poem, which word or words, though
counting in the scansion, are not regarded as the true
rhyme, which must in every case be sought for
immediately before them. The lines--

There shone such truth about thee,
I did not dare to doubt thee--

furnish an example of this in English poetry." In the
opening verse of Mesíhí's ode, as above transliterated
in European characters, the _redíf_ is "behár," or
spring, and the word which precedes it is the true
rhyme-ending. Sir William Jones has made an elegant
paraphrase of this charming ode, in which, however, he
diverges considerably from the original, as will be seen
from his rendering of the first stanza: