{"id":745,"date":"2013-03-15T00:35:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T05:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/?p=745"},"modified":"2013-03-16T23:11:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T04:11:29","slug":"compasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/2013\/03\/15\/compasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Compasses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Abu Sa’\u012bd Abu’l Khayr<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>(10th-11th C)<\/p>\n

\u00a0Translation:<\/h6>\n
You and I, my love, are a pair of compasses<\/h6>\n
though divided in twain, in body we are one<\/h6>\n
We circle on a point, anon like compasses<\/h6>\n
at the end we bring our heads together as one.<\/h6>\n

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Translation: Reza Ourdoubadian. The Poems of Abu Sa’id Abu’l Kheyr. Ibex, 2010<\/p>\n

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Original:<\/h6>\n
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Hafez<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>(14th-11th C)<\/p>\n

Translation:<\/p>\n

For years, we pawned our book for wine<\/h6>\n
The wealth of the tavern was our lesson and prayer<\/h6>\n

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See my Master’s grace with us drunks<\/h6>\n
His eye saw goodness in whatever we did<\/h6>\n

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The book of my knowledge, you washed it all away with wine<\/h6>\n
I saw the heavens \u00a0searching for a heart that was wise<\/h6>\n

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Seek that beauty from the idols, O knowing heart<\/h6>\n
Said the one who knew the art of the wandering gaze<\/h6>\n

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My heart, like a compass, spun round in all directions<\/h6>\n
I’m lost in that circle, with foot firmly on the ground<\/h6>\n

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From the pain of love, the minstrel improvised sad songs<\/h6>\n
so sad that bloody tears fell from the eyes of the worldly-wise<\/h6>\n

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My heart bloomed with joy, like a flower by the stream<\/h6>\n
under the shadow of the cypress tree of my beloved<\/h6>\n

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My rosy Master, would hear no evil about his blue-robed disciples<\/h6>\n
otherwise, what stories there would have been!<\/h6>\n

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Hafez’s counterfeit heart was not spent<\/h6>\n
because this trader sees all hidden flaws<\/h6>\n

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Original:<\/p>\n

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<\/h6>\n
John Donne<\/strong><\/h6>\n
(16th-17th C)<\/h6>\n
“A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”<\/h6>\n
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