...come, come, whoever you are.

wonderer, worshipper,

 lover of leaving.

it doesn't matter.

ours is not a caravan of despair...

- rumi

...i walk into a huge pasture

i nurse the milk of millennia...

-rumi

...in ignorance and folly

when my wings i spread,

from palace unto prison

i was swiftly sped...

-rumi

...the world a lone spirit

inhabiting.

like a snake i crept

with out foot or wing...

-rumi

...yet for the drum-tap

from the world of all

into this perishing

land i did fall...

-rumi

...lions emblazoned high on flags

unfurled- they wind invisible

sweeps us through the world.

-rumi

...the phantom sentries, 

who with batons drawn

guard beauty's place-gate

and curtained bower,

give way before him,

unafraid he passes,

and showing the king's

arrow, enters in.

-rumi

...oh' music is the meat of all who love, 

music uplifts the soul to realms above.

the ashes glow, the latent fires increase:

we listen and are fed with joy and peace.

-rumi

up, o ye lovers, and away! 

'tis time to leave 

the world for aye.

hark, loud and clear

from heaven the from 

of parting calls- 

let none delay!...

-rumi

...poor copies out of heaven's originals, 

pale earthly pictures mouldering to decay,

what care although your beauties break and fall,

when that which gave them life endures for aye?...

-rumi

...oh never vex thine heart with idle woes: all high discourse enchanting the rapt ear, all gilded landscapes and brave glistering shows fade-perish but it is not as we fear...

-rumi