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  • The remedy of our pride and vainglory, our Plato and our Galen!
  • Through Love the earthly body soared to the skies: the mountain began to dance and became nimble. 25
  • Love inspired Mount Sinai, O lover, (so that) Sinai (was made) drunken and Moses fell in a swoon.
  • Were I joined to the lip of one in accord with me, I too, like the reed, would tell all that may be told;
  • (But) whoever is parted from one who speaks his language becomes dumb, though he have a hundred songs.
  • When the rose is gone and the garden faded, thou wilt hear no more the nightingale's story.
  • The Beloved is all and the lover (but) a veil; the Beloved is living and the lover a dead thing. 30
  • When Love hath no care for him, he is left as a bird without wings. Alas for him then!
  • How should I have consciousness (of aught) before or behind when the light of my Beloved is not before me and behind?
  • Love wills that this Word should be shown forth: if the mirror does not reflect, how is that?