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/ A Sufi debauchee of dreams / Spake this: -- From Sodomite to Peri / Earth tablets us; we live and are / Man's own long commentary.
/ Is one begat in Bassora, / One lies in Damietta dying -- / The plausibilities of God / All possibles o'erlying.
/ But burns the lust within the flesh? -- / Hell's but a homily to Heaven, -- / Put then the individual first, / And of thyself be shriven.
/ Neither in adamant nor brass / The scrutinizing eye records it; / The arm is rooted in the heart, / The heart that rules and lords it.
/ Be that it is and thou art all; / And what thou art so thou hast written / Thee of the lutanists of Love, / Or of the torture-smitten.