The Festival of Spring, from the Díván of Jeláleddín / Rendered in English Gazels after Rückert's Versions, with an Introduction and a Criticism of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Up out of Night
XLVII.

O for Wings to Heaven to soar—

Up out of Night!

A Heart to Struggle to Light's Shore—

Up out of Night!

Lo! How God's Messengers of Love,

In dancing Dawn:

In Life and Light new Worlds restore,

Up out of Night!