The Light Of The Sun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD E FGBHI J KL MNFBO PQ RST U JVBQH W XY FZ A2BB2C2 D2E2KUF2G2W FH2HFI2J2H H2BJ2XS K2FQQISL2M2 QN2NB2O2 P2Q2R2S2 SKH S2T2E2 S U2SH2V2SW2F FRF H2X2S VY2W2B2Z2VA3STHE light of the sun the moon | A |
and the stars shines bright | B |
The melody of love swells forth | C |
and the rhythm of love's detachment beats the time | D |
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Day and night the chorus of music fills the heavens | E |
and Kab r says 'My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky ' | - |
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Do you know how the moments perform their adoration | F |
Waving its row of lamps | G |
the universe sings in worship day and night | B |
There are the hidden banner and the secret canopy | H |
There the sound of the unseen bells is heard | I |
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Kab r says 'There adoration never ceases | J |
there the Lord of the Universe sitteth on His throne ' | - |
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The whole world does its works and commits its errors | K |
but few are the lovers who know the Beloved | L |
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The devout seeker is he who mingles in his heart | M |
the double currents of love and detachment | N |
like the mingling of the streams of Ganges and Jumna | F |
In his heart the sacred water flows day and night | B |
and thus the round of births and deaths is brought to an end | O |
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Behold what wonderful rest is in the Supreme Spirit | P |
and he enjoys it who makes himself meet for it | Q |
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Held by the cords of love | R |
the swing of the Ocean of Joy sways to and fro | S |
and a mighty sound breaks forth in song | T |
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See what a lotus blooms there without water | U |
and Kab r says 'My heart's bee drinks its nectar ' | - |
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What a wonderful lotus it is | J |
that blooms at the heart of the spinning wheel of the universe | V |
Only a few pure souls know of its true delight | B |
Music is all around it | Q |
and there the heart partakes of the joy of the Infinite Sea | H |
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Kab r says 'Dive thou into that Ocean of sweetness | W |
thus let all errors of life and of death flee away ' | - |
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Behold how the thirst of the five senses is quenched there | X |
and the three forms of misery are no more | Y |
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Kab r says 'It is the sport of the Unattainable One | F |
look within and behold how the moon beams | Z |
of that Hidden One shine in you ' | - |
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There falls the rhythmic beat of life and death | A2 |
Rapture wells forth and all space is radiant with light | B |
There the Unstruck Music is sounded | B2 |
it is the music of the love of the three worlds | C2 |
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There millions of lamps of sun and of moon are burning | D2 |
There the drum beats and the lover swings in play | E2 |
There love songs resound and light rains in showers | K |
and the worshipper is entranced in the taste of the heavenly nectar | U |
Look upon life and death there is no separation between them | F2 |
The right hand and the left hand are one and the same | G2 |
Kab r says 'There the wise man is speechless | W |
for this truth may never be found in Vadas or in books ' | - |
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I have had my Seat on the Self poised One | F |
I have drunk of the Cup of the Ineffable | H2 |
I have found the Key of the Mystery | H |
I have reached the Root of Union | F |
Travelling by no track | I2 |
I have come to the Sorrowless Land | J2 |
very easily has the mercy of the great Lord come upon me | H |
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They have sung of Him as infinite and unattainable | H2 |
but I in my meditations have seen Him without sight | B |
That is indeed the sorrowless land | J2 |
and none know the path that leads there | X |
Only he who is on that path has surely transcended all sorrow | S |
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Wonderful is that land of rest | K2 |
to which no merit can win | F |
It is the wise who has seen it | Q |
it is the wise who has sung of it | Q |
This is the Ultimate Word | I |
but can any express its marvellous savour | S |
He who has savoured it once | L2 |
he knows what joy it can give | M2 |
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Kab r says 'Knowing it | Q |
the ignorant man becomes wise | N2 |
and the wise man becomes speechless and silent | N |
The worshipper is utterly inebriated | B2 |
His wisdom and his detachment are made perfect | O2 |
He drinks from the cup of the inbreathings and the outbreathings of love ' | - |
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There the whole sky is filled with sound | P2 |
and there that music is made without fingers and without strings | Q2 |
There the game of pleasure and pain does not cease | R2 |
Kab r says 'If you merge your life in the Ocean of Life | S2 |
you will find your life in the Supreme Land of Bliss ' | - |
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What a frenzy of ecstasy there is in every hour | S |
and the worshipper is pressing out and drinking the essence of the hours | K |
he lives in the life of Brahma | H |
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I speak truth for I have accepted truth in life | S2 |
I am now attached to truth | T2 |
I have swept all tinsel away | E2 |
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Kab r says 'Thus is the worshipper set free from fear | S |
thus have all errors of life and of death left him ' | - |
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There the sky is filled with music | U2 |
There it rains nectar | S |
There the harp strings jingle | H2 |
and there the drums beat | V2 |
What a secret splendour is there | S |
in the mansion of the sky | W2 |
There no mention is made of the rising and the setting of the sun | F |
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In the ocean of manifestation | F |
which is the light of love | R |
day and night are felt to be one | F |
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Joy for ever no sorrow no struggle | H2 |
There have I seen joy filled to the brim perfection of joy | X2 |
No place for error is there | S |
Kab r says 'There have I witnessed the sport of One Bliss ' | - |
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I have known in my body the sport of the universe | V |
I have escaped from the error of this world | Y2 |
The inward and the outward are become as one sky | W2 |
the Infinite and the finite are united | B2 |
I am drunken with the sight of this All | Z2 |
This Light of Thine fulfils the universe | V |
the lamp of love that burns on the salver of knowledge | A3 |
Kab r says 'There error cannot enter | S |
and the conflict of life and death is felt no more ' | - |
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