Do You Remember

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Do You Remember

Poem

Do you remember O soul the days of old
When thou lent thy mood to stout rebellion?
Thy thoughts all virile like a contagion
Seizing all minds with its vigour bold.

Do you remember O soul thy passions bright,
Outshining the summer’s paltry flame?
Thy dreams put sweet spring to shame
And musings deeper than mystic Night.

Do you remember O soul thy adamant will
Cold and sharp like an edge of a blade?
Never a scabbard to hold it was made,
Oh the memory sweetens the hour still.

Do you remember O soul the amorous heart,
That creature hued with a fervent red?
In such profusions did its passions bled
Throwing cupid into a sulk and fret.

But O soul thou art attired now in beggary,
Thy mind like a bowl empty for alm,
Thy lips impoverished to a single name,
Crying always, ‘O Beloved, O Beloved, my sole divinity’.

My soul said, ‘Oh, I have outgrown all mortal shame,
I bathe now in the glory of the immortal Name!’