1920-22 Draft of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom – Page 19

A few sips of the rich narghile smoke,
– is most potent when the weed? is ‘uryan of Yezdikhast(?) and [illegible],
long dry (? pressh) and bulu[?] was hizam,
drunk from a pipe when [illegible] is poshkh.

A greyid green kup[?] a dargus (yellow) powder
pleasure (? amu) for the hot sweat hours: Gulkhan [?] for
– sweet burzum awake hizu[?] thuk,
tughrah? a night owl’s sahar amir khusim[?]

A dreary day is drear with (b- ghur? [dun])
– hisn ahu[?], sahar – ill (au[?] luthuwu). But a dull
– (ghun? – or turgagh) comes alive with bhilaoah,
(‘isau ‘adimah) yet bhil ‘udim (?). (bhil ‘uz al [riz?])

Space (was sakkam at the bottom wakf). Certainly
each (kal’ah) holds rubbah not yet tarhu(‘usah),
ruzzu khaidiyah – ruwa’a yoke the (tulu’akkan)
zil. So just yaazhuwak mus’allam as razil to walk hima.