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  • The goodly life is to nourish the spirit in nearness (to God); the crow's life is for the sake of eating dung.
  • (The crow says), “Give me more life that I may be ever eating dung: give me this always, for I am very evil-natured.”
  • Were it not that that foul-mouthed one is a dung-eater, he would say, “Deliver me from the nature of the crow!”
  • Prayer.
  • O Thou who hast transmuted one clod of earth into gold, and another clod into the Father of mankind, 780
  • Thy work is the transmutation of essences and (the showing of) munificence; my work is mistake and forgetfulness and error.
  • Transmute mistake and forgetfulness into knowledge: I am all choler, make me patience and forbearance.
  • O Thou who makest nitrous earth to be bread, and O Thou who makest dead bread to be life,
  • O Thou who makest the distracted soul to be a Guide, and O Thou who makest the wayless wanderer to be a Prophet,
  • Thou makest a piece of earth to be heaven, Thou givest increase in the earth from the stars. 785
  • Whosoever makes the Water of Life to consist of (the pleasures of) this world, death comes to him sooner than to the others.