SUR KHAHORI

CANTO I
1
Seen I’ad them, O mother!
Seen who’ad All-Excellence;
Go you to the gret spirits
Pass a night with them O once;
That to you their rememberace
Be a floating raft in the mid-stream.
2
They are with their days
With their ways, with their ways, with theirs hills;
Where the sun scorching kills,
There they live and labour for Love.
3
There’s no want of way with them
They’re walking the way along;
They’ll before bring to you
What’s to you the way long;
Then they sing His Celestial Song
Where is HE and where be HE.
4
One may go the Way along
But going upon IT is very hard
Sends not to the sluggard,
The Way Itself the fare here.
5
I’ad seen those way-farers
Who had not any rest here;
Walking shall be out where
They all their days on the Way.
CANTO II
1
Those who knew of the Mount
Its village in drear desolation
Leaving their crops and collection
Went away they, it’s way-farers.
2
Perceived who is their hearts
The hamlet on the barren hill;
Leaving their studies, arts
Strove, went as wayfaers.
3
Descending deep in their selves
Knew who it on eminence;
Renouncing all their existence,
Struggled, went they as way-farers.
4
Treads not where foot of a bird
Flickers there a distant Fire;
Who shall in the love-shire
Light this but His wayfarers.
CANTO III
1
Go not near the beaten path
But to unpath press and push
Coming through the Burnign Bush
That come you out as Fire-brand.
2
Who went by jungle weren’t lost,
Of the beaten paths were plundered;
In dark not floundered
Who false way left, and false light.
3
Jungle burned plain became
Theieves lost all hiding place;
Desire and the desirer face
Now each other on open road.
4
Better is the barren place
Where’s sole HE, the soul of Love;
Get away from the man-grove
Where false are people, falsities.
5
Better is that darkly night
Where way to Him is wholly lost;
There is no further seeing Sight
And way too may be forgotten!
6
The night is dark and day is bright
‘tis the nature of the light;
Where’s but the Heavenly Sight
There’s no colour or its hue.