On the Death of his Mistress - Abu Sahet Alhedhily

Dost thou wonder that I flew
Charm'd to meet my LEILA'S view?
Dost thou wonder that I hung
Raptur'd on my LEILA'S tongue?
If her ghost's funereal screech
Thro' the earth my grave should reach,
On that voice I lov'd so well
My transported ghost would dwell:
If in death I can descry
Where my LEILA'S relics lie,
SAHER'S dust will flit away,
There to join his LEILA'S clay.

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Abu Sahet Alhedhily (date unknown, but must be at least 18th century or earlier) Saudi Arabia
Source: Specimens of Arabian poetry, from the earliest time to the extinction of the Khaliphat, with some account of the authors by Joseph Dacre Carlyle, 1796