We Are As The Flute

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
 
 
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee,
O thou whose qualities are comely!
 
Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls,
that we should remain in being beside thee?
 
We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.
 
 
We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing
onward from moment to moment.
 
 
Their onward rush is visible, 
and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us! 
 
Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift; 
our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.
 
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