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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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A PERSIAN LESSON.
FOR his o'erarching and last lesson the greybeard sufi, |
In the fresh scent of the morning in the open air, |
On the slope of a teeming Persian rose-garden, |
Under an ancient chestnut-tree wide spreading its branches, |
Spoke to the young priests and students. |
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"Finally my children, to envelop each word, each part of the
rest,
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Allah is all, all, all—is immanent in every life and object, |
May-be at many and many-a-more removes—yet Allah, Allah,
Allah is there.
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"Has the estray wander'd far? Is the reason-why strangely
hidden?
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Would you sound below the restless ocean of the entire world? |
Would you know the dissatisfaction? the urge and spur of every
life;
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The something never still'd—never entirely gone? the invisible
need of every seed?
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"It is the central urge in every atom, |
(Often unconscious, often evil, downfallen,) |
To return to its divine source and origin, however distant, |
Latent the same in subject and in object, without one exception." |
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