The Song Of Love
Author
Khalil Gibran
BOOK
WANDRER
Translated by
M. Zahid Malik & Pervaiz Razi
A poet once wrote a love song
and it was beautiful.
And he made many copies of it,
and sent them to his friends and his acquaintances,
both men and women,
and even to a young woman whom
he had met but once,
who lived beyond the mountains.
And in a day or two a messenger
came from the young woman bringing a letter.
And in the letter she said,
 
“Let me assure you, I am deeply touched by the love song
that you have written to me.
Come now,
and see my father and my mother,
and we shall make arrangements for the betrothal.”
And the poet answered the letter, and he said to her,
“My friend,
it was but a song of love
out of a poet’s heart,
sung by every man to every woman.”
And she wrote again to him saying,
“Hypocrite and liar in words!
From this day
unto my coffin-day
I shall hate all poets for your sake.”
