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Excerpt from Antique Pageantry: A Book of Verse-Plays The room is represented by long dark curtains which divide at the back, both to right and left. These openings are supposed to look up to a street, and the light beyond them changes from amber to sapphire-blue, and again from blue to warm purple as the play proceeds. Two handsome copper lamps hang from the roof by long chains] hallaj (to the audience). My friends - well met, and be of good cheer For never, since Allah created man, Was life more goodly to live than here In the city of Ispahan. If I see one heart that retains a care, I will lower the curtain between us. Why, We are here so gay that we often say We cannot be sad though we try! You meet me now in a sorry case, But what is the use of a doleful face? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.