quatrain 494
From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #494:
Who sees inside from outside?
Who finds hundreds of mysteries
even where minds are deranged?
See through his eyes what he sees.
Who then is looking out from his eyes?
-- Version by Coleman Barks
Open Secret
Threshold Books, 1984
who is the one
who sees the external
right from within
who is the one
who casts a hundred magic spells
when watching the insane in love
try your own eyes
see how they see
who is the one
who is looking out
through your eyes for you
--Translation by Nader Khalili
Rumi, Dancing the Flame
Cal-Earth Press, 2001
1 Comments:
Hey! You're back to posting again. Seems you disappeared for a while.
I attended a Coleman Barks reading a couple years ago. It was entertaining.
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