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Here, Sunlight offers Ghazal N-XIX (numbered according
to Nicholson's numbering system, rather than the Furuzanfur
system), in a version by Kabir Helminski:
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"To Know the Moon and the Sea"
At the break of dawn a single moon appeared,
descended from the sky, and gazed at me.
Like a falcon swooping in for the catch,
it snatched me up and soared across the sky.
When I looked at myself, I saw myself no more,
because by grace my body had become fine.
I made a journey of the soul accompanied by the moon,
until the secret of time was totally revealed.
Heaven's nine spheres were in that moon.
The vessel of my being had vanished in that sea.
Waves rose on the ocean. Intelligence ascended
and sounded its call. So it happened; so it was.
The sea began to foam and every bit of froth
took shape and was bodied forth.
Then each spindrift body kissed by that sea
immediately melted into spirit.
Without the power of a Shams, the Truth of Tabriz,
one could neither behold the moon nor become the sea.
-- Ghazal (Ode) N-XIX
Version by Kabir Helminski
"Love is a Stranger"
Threshold Books, 1993
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