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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460981" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the Spirit of Rumi-40-The Nightingale and the Rose</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As cold winter turns to warming Spring, <br>two lovers return from their winter rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first rose shyly blooms; .<br>the nightingale pours out its song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These are the two most generous lovers in the world; <br>do they not deserve each other? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the daytime, while the nightingale takes its rest, <br>renews its generous throat, <br>the rose opens to embrace the world with beauty; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the nighttime, while the rose folds and rests in sleep, <br>waiting to drink that purest dew of dawn, <br>the nightingale tells the world of beauty; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So each speaks in turn; both speak of beauty; <br>one in sound, the other in silence.<br>This way, telling of their love to the sleeping other; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do they prefer it thus? Or is their listening<br>as sensitive as a mother’s nighttime intuition, <br>hearing more clearly, inwardly, in rest? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which is the Lover, which is the Beloved? <br>Does the nightingale return in spring<br>at the first perfume of the rose, <br>drifting from the hedge and garden<br>like the messages of Layla and Majnun? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or does the rose wait impatiently to bloom in Spring<br>until it hears – its petals trembling as they listen –<br>the nightingale’s song from that liquid throat? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which is the Lover, which is the Beloved? <br>Does it matter to the world? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It matters only if that love is not equal; full; <br>generous beyond all worldly measure; <br>and then the Lover has become the Beloved, <br>the Beloved has become the Lover..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You and I, on our prayer-mat each day, <br>seeking God within ourselves, <br>which is the Lover, which the Beloved? <br>Have we yet become each other, <br>equal, full, and generous beyond all worldly measure; <br>night and day, as nightingale and rose? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As nightingales and roses sing forever <br>of each other's love<br>eternally, the round world turning, turning..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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two lovers return from their winter rest.

The first rose shyly blooms; .
the nightingale pours out its song.

These are the two most generous lovers in the world; 
do they not deserve each other? 

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