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  • The walnuts were falling from the walnut-tree into the water: the sound was coming (to his ears), and he was seeing the bubbles.
  • A sensible person said to him, “Leave off, O youth: truly the (loss of the) walnuts will bring thirst (regret) to you.
  • The more the fruit falls into the water—(since) the water is below at a (great) distance from you,
  • The river-water will have carried it (the fruit) far away before you with effort come down from the top (of the tree).”
  • He replied, “My purpose in this scattering is not (to obtain possession of) the walnuts: look more keenly, do not stop at this superficial (view). 750
  • My purpose is that the sound of the water should come (to my ears); also, that I should see these bubbles on the surface of the water.”
  • What, indeed, is the thirsty man's business in the world? To circle for ever round the base of the tank,
  • Round the channel and round the Water and the sound of the Water, like a pilgrim circumambulating the Ka‘ba of Truth.
  • Even so, in (composing) this Mathnawí thou, O Ziyá’u ’l-Haqq (Radiance of God) Husámu’ddín, art my object.
  • The whole Mathnawí in its branches and roots is thine: thou hast accepted (it). 755