(Asrar-e-Khudi-03) Rumi Aur Talash-e-Insan

But yester‐eve a lamp in hand 1
The Shaykh did all the city span,
Sick of mere ghosts he sought a man,
But could find none in all the land.
“I Rustam or a Hyder seek
I’m sick of snails, am sick,” he said,
“There’s none,” said I. He shook his head,
“There’s none like them, but still I seek.”
—Rumi

1 The versified translation of the quotation from Rumi is taken from Shaikh Mahmud Husain.
Strangely, Nicholson omitted it although he was best known as Rumi’s translator.