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Eternal are the bright hues
and radiance
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Of the garden of love,
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And love's ethereal resonance,
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Unaided by voice or instrument !
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Look at the happy camaraderie
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Of flowers, each wearing a crown,
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Symbol of love's welcome load,
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Which I also sport from birth !
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Some flowers are ruined by greed,
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Thorns by the fire of anger,
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It's the devotee of love alone
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Who doesn't get destroyed.
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Love and self interest these days
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Have got mixed like milk and water -
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So fine, perhaps, that there's none
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Who can separate the two.
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Winds howling over the sea of life
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Leave a boat tossing on the waves;
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Love alone can help it breast the storm,
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And reach the distant shore.
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Intelligence may not help You
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Complete a task for years
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But love will lend you lightning speed
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To see that it is through.
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The parrot picks up tutored speech
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With his master's patient toil,
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But who in the forest is there to teach
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The wild mynah her songs of love ?
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Dogmas of religion sow discord
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Even between two brothers;
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While words of love build a bridge
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Between two alien souls.
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Lightning is not as swift as love.
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Remember, it was a mere touch
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Of love's effulgent radiance
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That made the universe bright !
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When the morning breeze floated in
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With the message of love,
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All flower branches bowed low,
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Accepting the bond with you.
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My childhood friends may not remain
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With me all the way,
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But love will ever abide by me
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Till I have reached the goal.
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The foolish flower hid his heart,
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And waited on the bough for the highest bid,
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Not knowing that it's the heart seeks love,
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And the gut a bulbul full of love.
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The greatest of all royal durbars
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Ever held in the world,
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Was the one where the king presented
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The faqir with his royal crown.
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Why fear death, O Mahjoor ?
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Death is only an ascension,
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Like the dew ascends to reach the sun -
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Helped, of course, by love !