GHAZAL OF ZINDA-RUD
| You have not reached Man, so why do you seek God? | |
| You have fled from your self; why do you seek a friend? | 3470 |
| Hang again on the rose-twig and suck in the sap and the dew; | |
| faded blossom, what are you seeking from the zephyr? | |
| What they call musk is two drops of the heart’s blood; | |
| gazelle of the Sanctuary, what are you seeking in Cathay? | |
| Poverty’s assay is by sovereignty and world-dominion; | 3475 |
| seek Jamshid’s throne-why do you seek a reed-mat? | |
| Men track it out from the garden of tulips; | |
| why do you seek from me the song drenched with blood? | |
| The vision augments through the company of the enlightened of heart; | |
| why do you seek collyrium from the sorrow of the short-sighted? | |
| We are calenders, and our miracle is world-vision; | |
| seek vision from us-why seek the philosopher’s stone? |