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Poetry
Chaikhana
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About Farid ud-Din AttarTimeline (1120? - 1220?) |
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English version by Original Language |
The Birds Find Their King
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Once more they ventured from the Dust to raise
Their Eyes -- up to the Throne -- into the Blaze, And in the Centre of the Glory there Beheld the Figure of -- Themselves -- as 'twere Transfigured -- looking to Themselves, beheld The Figure on the Throne en-miracled, Until their Eyes themselves and That between Did hesitate which Seer was, which Seen; They That, That They: Another, yet the Same; Dividual, yet One: from whom there came A Voice of awful Answer, scarce discern'd, From which to Aspiration whose return'd They scarcely knew; as when some Man apart Answers aloud the Question in his Heart: 'The Sun of my Perfection is a Glass Wherein from Seeing into Being pass.'
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