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@ -252,8 +252,8 @@ I deserve nothing. Today I recognize
that I am the guest the mystics talk about.
I play this living music for my host.
Everything today is for the host.
IMRAUL - QAYS
Imrau l-Qays, king of the Arabs,
IMRAUL-QAYS
Imraul-Qays, king of the Arabs,
was very handsome and a poet full of love songs.
Women loved him desperately. Everyone loved him,
but there came one night an experience
@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ He put on dervish robes and wandered
from one weather, one landscape, to another.
Love dissolved his king-self and led him to Tabuk,
where he worked for a time making bricks.
Someone told the king of Tabuk about Imrau l-Qays,
Someone told the king of Tabuk about Imrau l-Qays,
and that king came to visit him at night.
“King of the Arabs, handsome Joseph of this age,
ruler of two empires, one composed of territories,
@ -272,8 +272,8 @@ if you would consent to stay with me,
I would be honored. You abandon kingdoms,
because you want more than kingdoms.”
The king of Tabuk went on like this, praising
Imrau l-Qays and talking theology and philosophy.
Imrau l-Qays kept silent.
Imrau l-Qays and talking theology and philosophy.
Imrau l-Qays kept silent.
Then suddenly he leaned and whispered something
in the second kings ear, and that second
king became a wild wanderer too.