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The duty of long years of love obey

 

And tell the tale of happy days gone by,

 

That land and sky may laugh aloud today,

 

And it may gladden mind and heart and eye. [1]

[1 The Mathnavi.]

 

This is the realm of full awareness,

of utter self-effacement.

Even love is no pathway to this region,

and longing hath no dwelling here;

wherefore is it said,

"Love is a veil betwixt the lover and the beloved."

Here love becometh an obstruction and a barrier,

and all else save Him is but a curtain.

The wise Sana'i hath written:

Baha'u'llah, The Four Valleys

 

 

Done