"If there be any lover in the world, O Moslems, 'tis I.
If there be any believer, infidel, or Christian hermit, 'tis I.
The wine-dregs, the cupbearer, the minstrel, the harp, and the music,
The beloved, the candle, the drink and the joy of the drunken--'tis I.
The two-and-seventy creeds and sects in the world
Do not really exist: I swear by God that every creed and sect--'tis I.
Earth and air and water and fire--knowest thou what they are?
Earth and air and water and fire, nay, body and soul too--'tis I.
Truth and falsehood, good and evil, ease and difficulty from first to last,
Knowledge and learning and asceticism and piety and faith--'tis I.
The fire of Hell, be assured, with its flaming limbos,
Yes, and Paradise and Eden and the Houris--'tis I.
This earth and heaven with all that they hold,
Angels, Peris, Genies, and Mankind--'tis I."
If there be any believer, infidel, or Christian hermit, 'tis I.
The wine-dregs, the cupbearer, the minstrel, the harp, and the music,
The beloved, the candle, the drink and the joy of the drunken--'tis I.
The two-and-seventy creeds and sects in the world
Do not really exist: I swear by God that every creed and sect--'tis I.
Earth and air and water and fire--knowest thou what they are?
Earth and air and water and fire, nay, body and soul too--'tis I.
Truth and falsehood, good and evil, ease and difficulty from first to last,
Knowledge and learning and asceticism and piety and faith--'tis I.
The fire of Hell, be assured, with its flaming limbos,
Yes, and Paradise and Eden and the Houris--'tis I.
This earth and heaven with all that they hold,
Angels, Peris, Genies, and Mankind--'tis I."
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