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A Sufi debauchee of dreams      Spake this: From Sodomite to Peri     Earth tablets us; we live and are      Man's own long commentary.     Is one begat in Bassora,      One lies in Damietta dying     The plausibilities of God      All possibles o'erlying.     But burns the lust within the flesh?      Hell's but a homily to Heaven,     Put then the individual first,      And of thyself be shriven.     Neither in adamant nor brass      The scrutinizing eye records it;     The arm is rooted in the heart,      The heart that rules and lords it.     Be that it is and thou art all;      And what thou art so thou hast written     Thee of the lutanists of Love,      Or of the torture-smitten.

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