Such grace and beauty and loveliness and bestowal of life,
O misery and error, if anyone dispense with Him!
Fly, fly O bird, to thy native home,
For thou hast escaped from the cage, and thy pinions are outspread.
Travel away from the bitter stream towards the water of life,
Return from the vestibule to the high seat of the soul.

— Rumi Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

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