Friday, May 16, 2008

Ode 2180


From these depths depart towards heaven;

may your soul be happy,journey joyfully.

You have escaped from the city full of fear and trembling;

happily become a resident of the Abode of Security

..If the body’s image has gone,

await the image-maker;

if thebody is utterly ruined,

become all soul.

If your face has become saffron pale through death,

become adweller among tulip beds and Judas trees.

If the doors of repose have been barred to you,

come, departby way of the roof and the ladder.

If you are alone from Friends and companions,

by the help ofGod become a saheb-qeran
( Saheb qeran is a person who is born under a happy conjunction of the planets. [lord of happy circumstance].

If you have been secluded from water and bread,

like breadbecome the food of the souls, and so become!

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