A Nursling Bright December 13, 2008
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Why wilt thou dwell
In mouldy cell,
A captive, O my heart?
Speed, speed the flight!
A nursling bright
Of yonder world thou art.
Rumi, Divan-e Shams-e Tabriz
(Translated by R. A. Nicholson)
