"Tell me, gentle traveller, thou
Who hast wandered far and wide,
Seen the sweetest roses blow
And the brightest rivers glide,—
Say, of all thine eyes have seen,
Which the fairest land has been."
"Lady, shall I tell thee where
Nature seems most blest and fair,
Far above all climes beside?—
’Tis where those we love abide;
And that little spot is best
Which the loved one’s foot hath pressed.
"Though it be a fairy space,
Wide and spreading is the place;
Though ’twere but a barren mound,
’Twould become enchanted ground.
With thee, yon sandy waste would seem
The margin of Al Cawthar's stream;
And thou canst make a dungeon’s gloom
A bower where new-born roses bloom.

— Rumi Attributed Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient (1882)

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