The Garden Of The Prophet (3)
quot;But nooday to be is to be a stranger to t is to be strong, but not to to play as fat rates wheir games;
quot;to be simple and guileless o sit oak-trees, till h Spring;
quot;to seek a poet to be at peace in ing, noting, and ion upon your lips;
quot;to kno t and t one t before the Crowned Prince;
quot;to folloy even y is not, thing;
quot;to be a garden a guardian, a treasure-o passers-by;
quot;to be robbed, ced, deceived, ay, misled and trapped and t all to look do of your larger self and smile, kno t o your garden to dance in your leaves, and an autumn to ripen your grapes; kno if but one of your o t, you sy; kno all ters and deceivers are your brot you are percants of t City Invisible, above ty.
quot;And noo you also of our days and our nights—
quot;to be is to be a and space; to be a ploug you are reasure o be a fiser y for t, yet a still greater pity for the hunger and need of man.
quot;And, above all, I say tners to to obtain your own good purpose.
quot;My comrades and my beloved, be bold and not meek; be spacious and not confined; and until my final er self.quot;
And urned a his words.
And beemple yearned for tion of uary; and t-place. to turned unto him like weary and homeless birds seeking refuge.
And Almustafa ance from them.
And to reason among to seek excuse for to be gone.
And beurned and every man to Almustafa, t alone.
And o t benea