Islam

Rûmî, Divan (Davis), “I Saw the Winter Weaving”

I saw the winter weaving from flakes a robe of Death;
And the spring found earth in mourning, all naked, lone, and bare.
I heard Time's loom a-whirring that wove the Sun's dim Veil;
I saw a worm a-weaving in Life-threads its own lair.
I saw the Great was Smallest, and saw the Smallest Great;
For God had set His likeness on all the things that were.

Source Rûmî, Divan de Shams-i Tabrîz, extraits traduits par R. A. Nicholson (1898) et al., in F. Hadland Davis, The Persian Mystics: Jalálu’d-dín Rúmí (1907), gutenberg.org #45159 · Contents