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The Sufism of the Rubáiyát

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Norton F. W. Hazeldine translation

So when Death's Angel doth us call, instead of pains its joys we know. The fears and stings of death were made by earthly priests but not the potter's gentle hands. This dark wine quaff and the cup to earth return, for you that stream have crossed and the further shore attained. There's where thy soul its heavenly garb assumes, of which this dust of earth is too gross its frame to build.

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