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 | The poems of Madison Cawein |  |
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SELF
A Sufi said to me in dreams:
Behold! from Sodomite to Peri
Earth tablets us: man lives and is
Man's own long commentary.
Behold! from Sodomite to Peri
Earth tablets us: man lives and is
Man's own long commentary.
Is one begat at Bassora,
One lies at Damietta dying—
The plausibilities of God
All possibles o'erlying.
One lies at Damietta dying—
The plausibilities of God
All possibles o'erlying.
But when lust burns within the flesh—
Hell 's but a homily on Heaven—
Put then the individual first,
And of thyself be shriven.
Hell 's but a homily on Heaven—
Put then the individual first,
And of thyself be shriven.
Neither in adamant nor brass
The scrutinizing eye records it:
The arm is rooted in the heart,
The heart that rules and lords it.
The scrutinizing eye records it:
The arm is rooted in the heart,
The heart that rules and lords it.
Be that it is and thou art all:
And what thou art so hast thou written
Thee of the lutanists of Love,
Or of the torture-smitten.
And what thou art so hast thou written
Thee of the lutanists of Love,
Or of the torture-smitten.
| The poems of Madison Cawein | |