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  • Only to the senseless is this sense confided: the tongue hath no customer save the ear.
  • In our woe the days (of life) have become untimely: our days travel hand in hand with burning griefs. 15
  • If our days are gone, let them go!—’tis no matter. Do Thou remain, for none is holy as Thou art!
  • Except the fish, everyone becomes sated with water; whoever is without daily bread finds the day long.
  • None that is raw understands the state of the ripe: therefore my words must be brief. Farewell!
  • O son, burst thy chains and be free! How long wilt thou be a bondsman to silver and gold?
  • If thou pour the sea into a pitcher, how much will it hold? One day's store. 20
  • The pitcher, the eye of the covetous, never becomes full: the oyster-shell is not filled with pearls until it is contented.
  • He (alone) whose garment is rent by a (mighty) love is purged entirely of covetousness and defect.
  • Hail, our sweet-thoughted Love —thou that art the physician of all our ills,
  • 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?
  • Dost thou know why the mirror (of thy soul) reflects nothing? Because the rust is not cleared from its face.
  • How the king fell in love with the sick handmaiden and made plans to restore her health.
  • O my friends, hearken to this tale: in truth it is the very marrow of our inward state. 35
  • In olden time there was a king to whom belonged the power temporal and also the power spiritual.
  • It chanced that one day he rode with his courtiers to the chase.
  • On the king's highway the king espied a handmaiden: the king was enthralled by her.