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

For I, Thy Rose, had this design.

Thou bad'st me blossom on Thy Robe,

And mad'st me for all eyes Thy Sign.

And when Thou pour'st me on the World,

It blows in Beauty, all Divine.

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Although thy Brightness glistens in the Sun, indeed;

Yet is my Light with thine all radiant, One, indeed!

Thou mad'st of Dust all glitt'ring the circling Heavens above;