You have been invited to meet
The Friend.
No one can resist a Divine Invitation.
That narrows down all our choices
to just two:
we can come to God
dressed for Dancing
or
be carried on a stretcher
to God’s Ward.
Hafiz
trans. Daniel Ladinsky
Archive for March, 2017
“A Divine Invitation” by Hafiz
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“Ash Wednesday” by T.S. Eliot
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Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
(Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?)
Why should I mourn
The vanished power of the usual reign?
Because I do not hope to know
The infirm glory of the positive hour
Because I do not think
Because I know I shall not know
The one veritable transitory power
Because I cannot drink
There, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is
nothing again
Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one place
I rejoice that things are as they are and
I renounce the blessèd face
And renounce the…
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