A Sufi debauchee of dreams
Spake this:–From Sodomite to Peri
Earth tablets us; we live and are
Man’s own long commentary.
Is one begat in Bassora,
One lies in Damietta dying–
The plausibilities of God
All possibles o’erlying.
But burns the lust within the flesh?–
Hell’s but a homily to Heaven,–
Put then the individual first,
And of thyself be shriven.
Neither in adamant nor brass
The scrutinizing eye records it;
The arm is rooted in the heart,
The heart that rules and lords it.
Be that it is and thou art all;
And what thou art so thou hast written
Thee of the lutanists of Love,
Or of the torture-smitten.
(Madison Julius Cawein)
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