Heav’n but the Vision of fulfill’d Desire

And Hell the shadow from a Soul on fire

Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves,

So late emerg’d from, shall so soon expire.


* * * the Banquet is ended!

FARIDU’D-DIN SHAKRGUNJ (about A. D. 1200).

Man, what thou art is hidden from thyself,

Know’st not that morning, mid-day, and the eve

Are all within Thee? The ninth heaven art Thou,