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HAFIZ AND PAUL.
TWO in my thought still linked together be,Hafiz, the singer of the clustering vine,
And Paul, the mystic of the Gnostic shrine,
As being, both alike, in ecstasy,
Beyond the bounds of earth and sky and sea,
In contemplation of the things divine
Still rapt and drunken with the spirit's wine,
Calénders of the soul's debauchery.
And in this heaven I joy of old and new,
Where bard and prophet mingle good and ill,
Where Antioch Fars, where Hafiz joins with Paul,
As being both deceivers and yet true,
Both sorrowful and yet rejoicing still,
Both having nothing, yet possessing all.
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