Hardly we find the path of love, to sink the Self, forget the “I,”


When sad suspicion grips the heart, when Man, the Man begins to die:


[…]


How Thought is imp' otent to divine the secret which the gods defend,


The Why of birth and life and death, that Isis-veil no hand may rend.

Eternal Morrows make our Day; our Is is aye to be till when


Night closes in; 'tis all a dream, and yet we die, – and then and THEN?

And still the Weaver plies his loom, whose warp and woof is wretched Man


Weaving th' unpattern'd dark design, so dark we doubt it owns a plan.


[…]


Cease, Man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; enjoy thy shining hour of sun;


We dance along Death's icy brink, but is the dance less full of fun?

–SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON,


THE KASÎDAH OF HÂJÎ ABDÛ EL YEZDÎ

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