O you who've gone on pilgrimage - where are you, where, oh where?
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My mother was fortune, my father generosity and bounty; I am joy, son of joy, son of joy, son of joy.
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The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain, to burst our bonds and become estranged from all;
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Rise, lovers, that we may go towards heaven; we have seen this world, so let us go to that world. No, no, for thought these two garde
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Last night my soul cried, “O exalted sphere of Heaven, you hang indeed inverted, with flames in your belly.
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Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue.
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Lovers share a sacred decree – to seek the Beloved.
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Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful; it is out of very jealousy and proper pride that we entered the veil. On the day when we
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I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing.
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Reason says, I will win him with my eloquence.
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When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb, should you come
to visit me, I will come forth with speed.
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Oh, if a tree could wander and move with foot and wings!
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The springtime of Lovers has come,
that this dust bowl may become a garden;
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Your grief for what youve lost holds a mirror up to where you're bravely working.
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Lord, said David, since you do not need us, why did you create these two worlds?
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Be helpless, dumbfounded,
Unable to say yes or no.
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Lord, what a Beloved is mine! I have a sweet quarry; I possess
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Bring wine, for I am suffering crop sickness from the vintage;
God has seized me, and I am thus held fast.
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What hidden sweetness there is in this emptiness of the belly
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i was dead i came alive
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He said, "Who is at my door?"
I said, "Your humble servant."
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Passion makes the old medicine new:
Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
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Again I am raging, I am in such a state by your soul that every
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The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart;
the secret thoughts he harbored against me I also perceived.
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Hearken to the reed-flute, how it complains,
Lamenting its banishment from its home:
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I am part of the load Not rightly balanced
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Everything other than love for the most beautiful God
though it be sugar- eating.
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The Lovers will drink wine night and day.
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Those who don't feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
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You who are not kept anxiously awake for love's sake, sleep on. In restless search for that river, we hurry along;
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