Goethe's West-eastern Divan: poetry reading

From Goethe's West-eastern Divan, translated from the German by Edward Dowden

The man who loves will never go astray,
Though shadows close around him and above,
Leila and Medschnun, if they rose to-day,
From me might understand the path of love.

Is it possible, sweet love, I hold thee close!
Hear the divine voice pealing, musical!
Always impossible doth seem the rose,
And inconceivable the nightingale.

Come, dearest, come, wind round my brow this band!
Thy fingers only make the turban fair.
Abbas, on Iran’s throne of high command,
Ne'er had his head enwound with comelier gear!