Round this worid, rich and and, Let’s look. What will surveys reveal? The towers built a goodly deal By Alexander and Jamshid. Lions and tigers haunt the wild In forests luminous and green. Dew~amp meadows next are seen, Creeks and springs with water mild. From nothing did the Lord create. Mountains are the lords of earth: Ask them, they’ll talk of Noah’s birth About them prayers congregate. Rejoice,...

Rivers of love surged forth and overflowed. I surfaced with a cloudburst in my blood - The throne of heart o’erturned – the world in code - I swam and swam3 a candle in the flood! Sleeping I dreamed and waking I arose. Love’s cruel – so I have read, I think - Its fatal dram of ecstasy I chose: I seized the chalice. Now I have to drink! Dark gales from my beloved blew. Eclipse Brought separation....

Friends, be receptive when new days are born!         – When dervish convent doors let in the morn         – When blessings flood them with the pristine light         Of dawn – and Truth sounds clear its hunting horn.         When Sin comes courting, do not let him in.         Deny both sin and self Thus you will win         Repentance. O, now is the time...

Кто робко внемлет мне, цветет, как роза, Но роз иных поить родник не будет. Всех пепелит мой гнев, моя угроза, На пепле же цвести цветник не будет Я – пилигрим, объятый смутой чудной, Ищу я мудрых, день провидя судный; Но я зову на подвиг...