Joy! Joy! I triumph! Now no more I know
Myself as simply me. I burn with love
Unto myself, and bury me in love.
The centre is within me and its wonder
Lies as a circle everywhere about me.
Joy! Joy! No mortal thought can fathom me.

Extract translated by Robert Alfred Vaughan, Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion, 5th ed. (London: John Slark, 1888), vol. 2, p. 21. Titled "The Triumph of the Soul in Margaret Smith's The Persian Mystics: ‘Aṭṭār (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co, 1932), p. 97