He is a student and practises book-keeping. The following verses are by him:—

“O thou who, for fear of being separated from thy love, art
in the agony of death,
I give thee good news, for she, whose breath is like that of
Masīḥ,* is coming, nay, is come.”

“The desire of seeing thee brings me, each moment, from my
house;
“Desire has seized me by the collar, and draws me to thee.

255 My great Preserver* is harsh to me in a thousand ways,
But how shall He bring the poor Shu‘ūrī into thy pres-
ence?”

“Love has entered, and seized the vein of my soul,
The bewilderment of seeing thee has made my tongue
mute.”

“Her wavy lock has fallen on her moon-like cheek,
A horse-shoe has been put into the fire for thee.”*

“Thou didst promise to sow the seed of faithfulness.
What is faithfulness? To keep one's promises.”

“The double chin* of that beauty with eyebrows like the
new moon
Is the reflection of the new moon in clear water.”

“Nay, for when the sun rose in the heavens,
The moon appeared beneath his rays.”