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,