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Ecstasy to content the mystic, without scientific, 
enquiry into its nature.  Pantheism. 
 
 
 
XXX 
 
THE SCRIBE 
 
 
Wherefore, O Zahid, so afraid 
To see the Maker in the Made ? 
 
Some one-eyed cripple hunchback built 
Yon marble tower whose coolth and shade 
 
Gladdens the lover.  Take the fact 
And leave the cause !  What joy or aid 
 
Springs form thy searches for the cause ? 
Thy cause thou dost to earth degrade, 
 
Bounding its nature ;  shall Habib’s 
Delicious podex be displayed 
 
To weaklings whose erections lags 
For them to prate and make parade 
 
Of tedious knowledge ?  Rather plunge 
To scabbard the impassioned blade ! 
 
Throughout the summer to indulge 
The sodomitic1 accolade ! 
 
Forget, an if thou wilt, the scribe ; 
The lovely script to heart be laid !2 
 
Describe the script ?  The scribe adore ? 
Perchance his podex is decayed.