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Song 18
The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars
shines bright:
The melody of love swells forth, and the rhythm of
love's
detachment beats the time.
Day and night, the chorus of music fills the
heavens; and Kabīr says
"My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in
the sky."
Do you know how the moments perform their adoration?
Waving its row of lamps, the universe sings in
worship day and night,
There are the hidden banner and the secret canopy:
There the sound of the unseen bells is heard.
Kabīr says: "There adoration never ceases; there the
Lord of the
Universe sitteth on His throne."
The whole world does its works and commits its
errors: but few
are the lovers who know the Beloved.
The devout seeker is he who mingles in his heart the
double
Song 19
O my heart! the Supreme Spirit,
the great Master, is near you:
wake, oh wake!
Run to the feet of your Beloved:
for your Lord stands near to your head.
You have slept for unnumbered ages;
this morning will you not wake?
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