Thou Suzanne

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Cupid, beholding her as she lay in the dust, stopped his flight for an instant and said, "O foolish Psyche, is it thus you repay my love? After having disobeyed my mother's commands and made you my wife, will you think me a monster and cut off my head? But go; return to your sisters, whose advice you seem to think preferable to mine. I inflict no other punishment on you than to leave you forever. Love cannot dwell with suspicion."

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“حي على الصلاة”: from the minaret sing

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Годы, люди и народы

Убегают навсегда,

Как текучая вода.

В гибком зеркале природы

Звезды - невод, рыбы - мы

Боги - призраки у тьмы.

Years, humans and peoples

Run away forever,

Like flowing water.

In the flexible mirror of nature

Stars are seine, we are fish,

Gods are ghosts of the darkness.

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This solitary hill has always been dear to me And this hedge, which prevents me from seeing most of The endless horizon. But when I sit and gaze, I imagine, in my thoughts Endless spaces beyond the hedge, An all encompassing silence and a deeply profound quiet, To the point that my heart is almost overwhelmed. And when I hear the wind rustling through the trees I compare its voice to the infinite silence. And eternity occurs to me, and all the ages past, And the present time, and its sound. Amidst this immensity my thought drowns: And to founder in this sea is sweet to me.

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Shim Sutcliffe - Craven road house, Toronto 1996. Via, photos © Bob Gundu.

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