We are the Flute: Rumi

 

We are the Flute

 

We are the flute, our music is all Thine;
We are the mountains echoing only Thee;
And movest to defeat or victory;
Lions emblazoned high on flags unfurled-
They wind invisible sweeps us through the world.

 

 

By: Rumi

R. A. Nicholson

‘Persian Poems‘, an Anthology of verse translations
edited by A.J.Arberry, Everyman’s Library, 1972

 

Photo by Ranjit Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries

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