Always at night returns the Beloved: do not eat opium to-night;
Close your mouth against food, that you may taste the sweetness
of the mouth.
Lo, the cup-bearer is no tyrant, and in his assembly there is a
circle:
Come into the circle, be seated; how long will you regard the
revolution (of Time)?
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Why, when God's earth is so wide, have you fallen asleep in
a prison?
Avoid entangled thoughts, that you may see the explanation of
Paradise.
Refrain from speaking, that you may win speech hereafter.
Abandon life and the world, that you may behold the Life of
the world.