Weary Not Of Us, For We Are Very Beautiful Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFGHIBBJKL| Weary not of us for we are very beautiful it is out of very jealousy and proper pride that we entered the veil | A |
| On the day when we cast of the body s veil from the soul you will see that we are the envy of despair of man and the Polestars | B |
| Wash your face and become clean for beholding us else remain afar for we are beloveds of ourselves | B |
| We are not that beauty who tomorrow will become a crone till eternity we are young and heart comforting and fair of stature | C |
| If that veil become worn out the beauty has not grown old the life of the Veil is transient and we are boundless life | D |
| When Eblis saw the veil of Adam he refused Adam called to him You are the rejected one not I | E |
| The rest of the angels fell down prostrate saying as they bowed themselves We have encountered a beauty | F |
| Beneath the veil is an idol who by his qualities robbed us of reason and we prostrate fell | G |
| If our reason does not know the forms of the foul old men from those of the beauties we are apostates from love | H |
| What place is there for a beauty For he is the Lion of God Like a child we prattled for we are children of the alphabet | I |
| Children are beguiled with nuts and raisins else how are we meet for nuts and sesame grains | B |
| When an old woman is hidden in helmet and chainmail she says I am the illustrious Rostam of the battle ranks | B |
| By her boast all know that she is a woman how should we make a mistake seeing that we are in the light of Ahmad | J |
| The believer is discriminating so said the Prophet now close your mouth for we are guided rightly without speech | K |
| Hear the rest of from Shams the Pride of Tabiz for we did not take the end of the story from that king | L |
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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