Motif
Attachment to a beloved followed by mourning at the tomb
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A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family United in Death. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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persian
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The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan XVIII / XXVII / CHAPTER IV / CHAPTER V; lines 3160-3201 confidence: high
The narrator says that in youth he became sincerely attached to a young man whose beauty and society seemed incomparable.
The narrator describes intense attachment to a beautiful young man, the young man's death, sitting at his tomb for many days, and composing dirges.
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