Chapter 22 No.22

Take to the garden thy carpet of prayer

Wait, and watch how at God's command

The daffodils girdles of green prepare,

How sentinel straight the cypresses stand.

Forget thyself in the Path-of-Life

Plunge for a second in God's own Sea,

And the Seven Tides of the Water of Strife

Will never encompass thee.

--Hafiz.

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