Last Night My Soul Cried O Exalted Sphere Of Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMLN| Last night my soul cried O exalted sphere of Heaven you hang indeed inverted with flames in your belly | A |
| Without sin and crime eternally revolving upon your body in its complaining is the indigo of mourning | B |
| Now happy now unhappy like Abraham in the fire at once king and beggar like Ebrahim e Adham | C |
| In your form you are terrifying yet your state is full of anguish you turn round like a millstone and writhe like a snake | D |
| Heaven the blessed replied How should I not fear that one who makes the Paradise of the world as Hell | E |
| In his hand earth is as wax he makes it Zangi and Rumi he makes it falcon and owl he makes it sugar and poison | F |
| He is hidden friend and has set us forth thus patent so that he may become concealed | G |
| How should the ocean of the world be concealed under straws The straws have been set adancing the waves tumbling up and down | H |
| Your body is like the land floating on the waters of the soul your soul is veiled in the body alike in wedding feast or sorrow | I |
| In the veil you are a new bride hot tempered and obstinate he is railing sweetly at the good and the bad of the world | J |
| Through him the earth is a green meadow the heavens are unresting on every side through him a fortunate one pardoned and preserved | K |
| Reason a seeker of certainty through him patience a seeker of help through him love seeing the unseen through him earth taking the form of Adam through him | L |
| Air seeking and searching water hand washing we Messiah like speaking earth Mary like silent | M |
| Behold the sea with its billows circling round the earthy ship behold Kaabas and Meccas at the bottom of this well of Zamzam | L |
| The king says Be silent do not cast yourself into the well for you do not know how to make a bucket and a rope out of my withered stumps | N |
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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