The Mirage Poem by Avetik Isahakyan

One day in the desert a bedouin
looked up and saw a mirage shimmering
ahead. Not water, but the splendor
of a dazzling girl.

In the thirsty, burning desert
among dry thorns, under a shadowless sun
he tried to reach her but instead
of that marvelous love he found death.

In his immaterial, immortal sleep
he still saw the splendor of that girlv shimmering ahead, an eternal mirage.
And in his endless dream he began to walk looking for her.

(1904)