SELF.

A Sufi debauchee of dreams

Spake this:— From Sodomite to Peri

Earth tablets us; we live and are

Man's own long commentary.

Is one begat in Bassora,

One lies in Damietta dying —

The plausibilities of God

All possibles o'erlying.

But burns the lust within the flesh?—

Hell's but a homily to Heaven,—

Put then the individual first,

And of thyself be shriven.

Neither in adamant nor brass

The scrutinizing eye records it;

The arm is rooted in the heart,

The heart that rules and lords it.

Be that it is and thou art all;

And what thou art so thou hast written

Thee of the lutanists of Love,

Or of the torture-smitten.