THE TWO PRINCESSES
Author
Khalil Gibran
 
BOOK
THE WANDERER
HIS PARABLES AND HIS SAYINGS
Urdu Translation
In the city of Shawakis lived a prince
and he was loved by everyone
men and women and children. Even the animals
the animals of the field came unto him in greeting.
But all the people said that
the princess, loved him not;
nay, that she even hated him.
And upon a day the princess of a neighboring city came to visit the princess of Shawakis.
And they sat and talked together,
and their words led to their husbands.
And the princess of Shawakis said with passion,
I envy you
your happiness  with the prince, your husband
though you have been married these many years.
I hate my husband.
He belongs not to me alone
and I am indeed a woman most unhappy.”
Then the visiting princess gazed at her and said,
“My friend, the truth is that you love your husband.
Aye,
and you still have him for a passion unspent,
and that is life in woman like unto Spring in a garden.
But pity me, and my husband,
for we do but endure one another in silent patience.
And yet you and others deem this happiness.”
