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A Sufi debauchee of dreams
  Spake this:--From Sodomite to Peri
  Earth tablets us; we live and are
  Man's own long commentary.

  Is one begat in Bassora,
  One lies in Damietta dying--
  The plausibilities of God
  All possibles o'erlying.

  But burns the lust within the flesh?--
  Hell's but a homily to Heaven,--
  Put then the individual first,
  And of thyself be shriven.

  Neither in adamant nor brass
  The scrutinizing eye records it;
  The arm is rooted in the heart,
  The heart that rules and lords it.

  Be that it is and thou art all;
  And what thou art so thou hast written
  Thee of the lutanists of Love,
  Or of the torture-smitten.

© Madison Julius Cawein