Everything other than love for the most beautiful
God
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A moment of happiness,
you and I sitting on the verandah,
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A stone I died and rose again a plant; A plant I died and rose an animal;
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All through eternity
Beauty unveils His exquisite form
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Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the master
Is either death in disguise or a deep sleep.
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Any soul that drank the nectar of your passion was lifted.
From that water of life he is in a state of elation.
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At the twilight, a moon appeared in the sky; Then it landed on earth to look at me.
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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 with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath
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Because I cannot sleep
I make music at night.
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Birdsong brings relief
to my longing
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Hearken to the reed-flute, how it complains,
Lamenting its banishment from its home:
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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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Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter.
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Again I am raging, I am in such a state by your soul that every
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A true lover is proved such by his pain of heart;
No sickness is there like sickness of heart.
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in this mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?”
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Every day I bear a burden, and I bear this calamity for a purpose:
I bear the discomfort of cold and December's snow in hope of spring.
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I don't need a companion who is
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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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I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing.
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How long will you think about this painful life?
How long will you think about this harmful world?
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I am a sculptor, a molder of form.
In every moment I shape an idol.
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"I am only the house of your beloved,
not the beloved herself:
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I am part of the load Not rightly balanced
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I closed my eyes to creation when I beheld his beauty, I became intoxicated with his beauty and bestowed my soul.
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I have a fire for you in my mouth, but I have a hundred seals on my tongue.
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I have been tricked by flying too close
to what I thought I loved.
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I have got out of my own control, I have fallen into unconsciousness; in my utter unconsciousness how joyful I am with myself!
The darling sewed up my eyes so
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see so deeply within myself.
Not needing my eyes, I can see everything clearly.
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