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

Clean let Hand and Mouth be kept;

Clean thy Garment's every Strand.

Where is He?
XXV.

I ask all I meet: Where is He?

In me incomplete: Where is He?

The Tree of my Thought stretch'd on high,

Reach'd not to His Seat: Where is He?

I ask of the Wanderers by Day:

My loved One, most sweet, Where is He?