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se : 'Of (denoting material, or race or stock, &c.); from; out of; with; in connection with; along with ... ; concerning; to ...); by; by means of, by the instrumentality of; by way of, along; over; upon; at; by reason of, in consequence of, through; on account of; in reference to, in respect of, as regards; according to; since; for (a period past)'. (Platts p.708)
;xuun honaa : 'A murder to be committed; to be murdered; — to be wasted, be squandered'. (Platts p.497)
FWP:
SETS == KA/KE/KI; MIDPOINTS; SE
MOTIFS == BONDAGE; LIVER; [LOVER AS BIRD]
NAMES
TERMSAs SRF explains, this verse is a fine example of the multivalent powers of the little postposition set kaa / ke / kii ; in fact their ambiguating powers are fully as great as those of an izafat (except for the fact that sometimes an izafat may or may not be present). What is the wound 'of' the garden? It may be 1) a wound that itself is the garden; 2) a wound inflicted by the garden; 3) a wound inflicted in the garden; 4) a wound inflicted on the garden; 5) a wound pertaining to the garden in some other way. Of course, some of these possibilities are more compelling than others, but the reader is never able to reach any kind of closure, through any one secure or overwhelmingly probable interpretation.
SRF assigns the shaayad to the second line; I see it as what I call a 'midpoints' case, in which it can go either way. If it goes with the first line, then it marks a speculation about the external cause of the bloody tears (perhaps it was imprisonment in the cage that worsened the wound described in the second line). And if the shaayad goes with the second line, then it marks a speculation about the internal cause of the bloody tears (perhaps it was the worsening of the earlier wound that caused the bloody tears that have become apparent since the speaker's imprisonment in the cage). On the former reading the versatile little postposition se means 'from, because of', and on the latter reading it means 'since, from the time'.
Note for meter fans: It's permissible to rearrange the scansion of gu-lis-taa;N ( - = = ) the way Mir has done, by turning it into gul-si-taa;N (= - = ), for metrical convenience.