Rumi, ghazal 598Arberry 74Barks 40.PPT

Rumi, ghazal 598Arberry 74 Barks 40 Morn-arising friends, who is there that discovers the dawn, who discovers us dancing in Confusion like atoms? Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins? Who finds us here circling, bewildered, like atoms? Ghazal 598/2 Who has the luck to come to the brink of a river to drink water from that river, and to discover the reflection of the moon? Who comes to a spring thirsty and sees the moon reflected in it? 598/3 Who is there that like Jacob from the shirt of Joseph seeks the scent of his son, and instead discovers the light of his eyes? Who, like Jacob blind with grief and age, smells the shirt of his lost son and can see again? 598/4 Or athirst like the bedouin casts a bucket into the well, and in the bucket discovers a beauty like an ass-load of sugar? Who lets a bucket down and brings up a flowing prophet? 598/5 Or like Moses seeking fire, who seeks out a bush, comes to gather the fire, and discovers a hundred dawns and sunrises? Or like Moses goes for fire and finds what burns inside the sunrise? 598/6 Jesus leaps into the house to escape from the foe; suddenly from the house he discovers a passage to heaven. Jesus slips into a house to escape enemies, and opens a door to the other world. 598/7 Or like a Soloman he splits a fish, and in the belly of that fish he discovers a ring of gold. Solomon cuts open a fish, and theres a gold ring. 598/8 Sword in hand, Umar comes intending to slay the Prophet; he falls into Gods snare, and discovers a kindly regard from fortune. Omar storms in to kill the prophet And leaves with blessings. 598/9 Or like Adhams son he drives towards a deer to make the deer his prey, and instead discovers another prey. Chase a deer and end up everywhere! 598/10 Or like a thirsty oyster shell he comes with gaping mouth to take a drop of water into himself, and discovers a pearl within himself. An oyster opens his mouth to swallow one drop. Now theres a pearl.