Religion

X: How amazing is the sublimity of the mind…

by Mirza Khan Ansari fl. 17th century (Raverty)

Translated by H. G. Raverty (1867) · From Selections from the Poetry of the Afghans (1867)

Religion

How amazing is the sublimity of the mind of the adorer!
Unto whose throne, there was no access, even for the giant Aeud.

This stage of it is more contracted than Sarat's narrow bridge:
How, then, did the army of love accomplish its ascent?.

His passion became like unto a vast and boundless ocean,
Which, by its first swell, o'erwhelmed him in the billows.

The sword of unity, from between, He removed altogether;
And upon infinitude, He conferred the name of spouse.

The boundless ocean, O Mirza! hath encompassed all things;
But the Ganges merely floweth to Shamsabad and Kanouj.

MLA

Ansari, Mirza Khan. “X: How amazing is the sublimity of the mind….” Translated by H. G. Raverty. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/mirza-khan-ansari/5/.

Chicago

Ansari, Mirza Khan. “X: How amazing is the sublimity of the mind….” Translated by H. G. Raverty. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/mirza-khan-ansari/5/.

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