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"This Eternal Play"

At dawn the Moon appeared in the sky.
It floated down and looked at me.
Then, like a hawk snatching its prey,
it grabbed hold of me
and dragged me across the sky.

When I looked I could not see myself.
By the magic of the Moon's light
my body dissolved into pure spirit.
In this form I journeyed on
Merging with a boundless light.
Then the secret of this eternal play
opened up before me.

The nine spheres of heaven
were enveloped in light.
The ship of my soul
was lost in a shoreless Sea . . . .

Suddenly the Sea of Being formed into waves.
Thoughts rose up,
images and forms broke on the shore.
Then everything returned to the way it was before,
merging into that vast Spirit.

The fortune of this sight
comes from Shams, the Truth of Tabriz.
Without his grace,
no one could ever ride the Moon
or become the endless Sea.

-- Version by Jonathan Star
"Rumi - In the Arms of the Beloved"
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York 1997

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