Your lovers departed for the world of non-existence in such a ruined state that everyone who saw them asked where these travelers had come from.
This couplet paints a haunting picture of the absolute ruin wrought by love. The lovers arrive in the realm of oblivion (adam) so thoroughly broken, hollowed out, and visibly wrecked that even the dwellers of the afterlife are stopped in their tracks, wondering what cruel world could have produced such battered travelers. It is a striking portrayal of devotion, showing that the scars of passion don't fade with death—they follow the lover right into eternity.
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