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  • Its turning is evidence for those who seek the River, lest any one should say that the River is motionless.

  • If thou seest not the hidden River, see the (perpetual) turning of the celestial water-wheel.

  • Since the heavens have no rest from (being moved by) Him (Love), (be) thou, O heart, like a star, (and) seek no rest.

  • If thou lay hold of a branch, how should He let (thee cling to it)? Wherever thou makest an attachment, He will break it. 915

  • If thou seest not the revolutionary action of the (Divine) decree, look at the surging and whirling (that appears) in the (four) elements;

  • For the whirling of the sticks and straws and foam are caused by the boiling of the noble Sea (of Love).

  • See the giddy wind howling; see the billows surging at His command.

  • The sun and moon are two mill-oxen, going round and round and keeping watch (over the world).

  • The stars likewise run from house to house (in the sky) and convey every good and evil fortune. 920

  • Hark, though the stars of heaven are far away and thy senses are (too) dull and slack (to apprehend their motions),

  • (Yet ask thyself) where are our stars—eye, ear, and mind—at night, and where (are they) when we are awake?

  • Now (they are) in good luck and union and happiness; now in ill-luck and separation and insensibility.

  • Since the moon of heaven is (engaged) in making this circuit, she is sometimes dark and sometimes bright.

  • Sometimes ’tis spring and summer, (delicious) as honey and milk; sometimes (the world is) a place of punishment by snow and piercing cold. 925

  • Seeing that before Him (God) universals are like a ball, subject (to Him) and prostrating themselves before His bat,

  • How shouldst thou, O heart, which art (but) one of these hundred thousand particulars, not be in restless movement at His decree?

  • Be at the disposal of the Prince, like a horse (or mule), now confined in the stable, now going (on the road).

  • When He fastens thee to a peg, be fastened (quiet and submissive); when He looses thee, go, be exultant (prance and bound).

  • (But keep on the right road, for when) the sun in heaven jumps crookedly, He causes it to be eclipsed in black disgrace, 930

  • Saying, “Avoid the (Dragon's) Tail: hark, take heed, lest thou become black of face like a cooking-pot.”

  • The cloud, too, is lashed with a whip of fire, (as through to say), “Go that way, do not go this way!

  • Rain upon such and such a valley, do not rain in this quarter”: He reprimands it, saying, “Give ear!

  • Thy reason is not superior to a sun: do not stay in (dally with) a thought that has been forbidden.

  • O Reason, do not thou too step crookedly, lest that eclipse of (the bright) face befall (thee). 935

  • When (thy) sin is less, thou wilt see half the sun eclipsed and half radiant,