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The Sufism of the Rubáiyát

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Norton F. W. Hazeldine translation

[35]He ate of the good and the evil of fruits from the hand of the woman who dwelt by his side, And after he'd tasted he stood face to face with the laws he had taken in vain. The bitter thus changed the sweet did become, hate changed to love and sorrow to joy, strife had ceased and peace had come. When he had thus conquered lust, he had also conquered thirst; that man from pain doth free become, who the battle wins, that conquers self.

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