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381-405

  • One draught on the faces of the charming fair: (consider, then,) how (marvellous) must be that pure wine!
  • Inasmuch as thou rubbest thy tongue (even) on this (earthly draught), how (enamoured of it) wilt thou be when thou seest (tastest) it without the clay!
  • When at the hour of death that pure draught is separated from the bodily clod by dying,
  • Thou quickly buriest that which remains, since it had been made such an ugly thing by that (separation).
  • When the Spirit displays its beauty without this carcase, I cannot express the loveliness of that union. 385
  • When the Moon displays its radiance without this cloud, ’tis impossible to describe that glory and majesty.
  • How delightful is that Kitchen full of honey and sugar, of which these (worldly) monarchs are (only) the lick-platters!
  • How delightful is that Stack in the spiritual field, of which every (other) stack is (only) the gleaner!
  • How delightful is the Sea of painless Life, of which the Seven Seas are (only) a dewdrop!
  • When the Cup-bearer of Alast poured a draught upon this nitrous abject earth, 390
  • The earth seethed, and we are (the result) of that seething. (O God, pour) another draught, for we are very effortless (unaspiring).
  • If ’twas permitted, I sang of non-existence; and if ’twas not to be told, lo, I was silent.
  • This is the account of the bent (grovelling) duck, which is greed: learn of Khalíl (Abraham) that the duck ought to be killed.
  • In the duck there is much good and evil besides this, (but) I am afraid of missing other (more important) topics of discourse.
  • Description of the Peacock and its nature, and the cause of its being killed by Abraham, on whom be peace.
  • Now we come to the two-coloured (double-faced) peacock, who displays himself for the sake of name and fame. 395
  • His desire is to catch people: he is ignorant of good and evil and of the result and use of that (catching).
  • He catches his prey ignorantly, like a trap: what knowledge has the trap concerning the purpose of its action?
  • What harm (comes) to the trap, or what benefit, from catching (its prey)? I wonder at its idle catching.
  • O brother, thou hast uplifted thy friends with two hundred marks of affection, and (then) abandoned (them).
  • This has been thy business from the hour of (thy) birth: to catch people with the trap of love. 400
  • From that pursuit (of people) and throng (of friends) and vainglory and self existence wilt thou get any warp or woof? Try and see!
  • Most (of thy life) is gone and the day is late; (yet) thou art still busy in pursuit of people.
  • Go on catching one and releasing another from the trap and pursuing another, like mean folk;
  • Then again release this one and seek the other! Here's a game of heedless children!
  • Night comes, and nothing is caught in thy trap: the trap is naught but a headache (affliction) and shackle to thee. 405