Wednesday 23 November 2005

Who is the beauty who has arrived sweetly?

Who is this? who is the beauty who has arrived sweetly?
Who has arrived at our house drunken with shoes under arms.
By way of trickery came that ruby-lipped, asking for fire;
Who does he intend to burn this time, I wonder. He has come alone.
O come! you the source of fire, come! how could you ask us for fire?
By God this is another trick, O you who have arrived so unexpectedly.

(Divan 2278:1,3,4)
Rumi

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