I-V

Come1 and take from2 me that old wine’s bowl.3
Which gives the dust of bowl4 quite a new soul,
If you water this poppy from my can,
A branch5 will grow to the size of a man.


1.         Come=to join his path.
2.         Take from me learn.
3.         Old wine’s bowl, viz, the lover’s way.
4.         Dust of bowl; a hint or allusion to the lover’s heart.
5.         A branch; or poppy’s branch =the whole nation, the Ummah, or one man.

Basic thought:-

If you would learn some Knowledgeable things from me, the branch (an individual) of this poppy may be six feet long against its usual length of one foot.