Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79.
Brahma
By Rumi (12071273)I
“Rest here!” I whisper the atom; I call to the orb, “Roll on!”
I am the leaf’s low murmur, the swell of the terrible seas;
The mirror, the form reflected, the sound and its echo, I;
The warrior, the blade that smites him, his mother’s heart-wrung tear;
The guest, the host, the tavern, the goblet of crystal fine;
Gold’s glitter, the light of the diamond, and the sea-pearl’s lustre wan,
Flint sparks, the taper, the moth, that about it flies.
Temptation, victim, sinner, crime, pardon and punishment,
The link, the chain of existence; beginning and end of all.