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Heart--Shaped Cross
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From: 11/6/78 11:38am Boston, MA
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posted March 18, 2007 04:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message

Speak not of fate: — ah! change the theme,
And talk of odours, talk of wine,
Talk of the flowers that round us bloom:
'Tis all a cloud, 'tis all a dream;
To love and joy thy thoughts confine,
Nor hope to pierce the sacred gloom.

Beauty has such resistless power,
That even the chaste Egyptian dame
Sigh'd for the blooming Hebrew boy;
For her how fatal was the hour,
When to the banks of Nilus came
A youth so lovely and so coy!

But ah! sweet maid, my counsel hear
(Youth should attend when those advise
Whom long experience renders sage):
While musick charms the ravish'd ear;
While sparkling cups delight our eyes,
Be gay; and scorn the frowns of age.

What cruel answer have I heard!
And yet, by heaven, I love thee still:
Can aught be cruel from thy lip?
Yet say, how fell that bitter word
From lips which streams of sweetness fill,
Which nought but drops of honey sip?

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,
Whose accents flow with artless ease,
Like orient pearls at random strung:
Thy notes are sweet, the damsels say;
But O! far sweeter, if they please
The nymph for whom these notes are sung.


- Hafiz of Shiraz

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castlegirl
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posted March 18, 2007 10:23 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for castlegirl     Edit/Delete Message

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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 18, 2007 11:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message
You understand.

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MysticMelody
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