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It is my lot to dwell in the mid-most street of the city, a street that flasheth with light supernal." Again Ioasaph thought he asked Barlaam to bring him to his own habitation, and, in friendly wise, to shew him the sights thereof. But Barlaam said that his time was not yet come to win those habitations, while he was under the burden of the flesh.
In this last mend of mowing-grass Sweet doth the clover smell, Crushed neath our feet red with the pass Where hell was blent with hell. And now the willowy stream is nigh, Down wend we to the ford; No shafts across its fishes fly, Nor flasheth there a sword. But lo! what gleameth on the bank Across the water wan, As when our blood the mouse-ear drank And red the river ran?
No breeze can compare with the breezes of Divine Revelation, whilst the Word which is uttered by God shineth and flasheth as the sun amidst the books of men. Happy the man that hath discovered it, and recognized it, and said: "Praised be Thou, Who art the Desire of the world, and thanks be to Thee, O Well-Beloved of the hearts of such as are devoted to Thee!"
Behold him, then, in this formidable situation: try thy power against his: silence 'the noise of the multitude of waters: fasten the vessel that 'reeleth like a drunken man; smooth the foaming waves that 'mount thee up to heaven; fill up the horrible gulfs whither thou goest 'down to the bottoms of the mountains; dissipate the lightning that flasheth in thy face; hush the bellowing thunders; confine the winds in their caverns; assuage the anguish of thy soul, and prevent its melting and exhaling with fear.
In like manner, they who, in this day, have neither met this Wronged One nor associated with Him have said, and even now continue to say, the things thou hast heard and hearest still. Say: "O people! The Sun of Utterance beameth forth in this day, above the horizon of bounty, and the radiance of the Revelation of Him Who spoke on Sinai flasheth and glisteneth before all religions.
"I ask of you from every rising sun, * And eke I ask when flasheth levenlight: When I pass my nights in passion-pain, * Yet ne'er I 'plain me of my painful plight; My love! if longer last this parting throe * Little by little shall it waste my sprite.
"Be wise, then, ere too late, brother! praise with every breath The hand that can chastise, the arm that can defend: "And bless thou the Prophet, the averter of our ills, While the lightning flasheth bright o'er the ocean and the hills." At this hour my companions become imaginative and superstitious.
Therewith he sang in a sweet and clear voice: and this is the meaning of his words: In hay-tide, through the day new-born, Across the meads we come; Our hauberks brush the blossomed corn A furlong short of home. Ere yet the gables we behold Forth flasheth the red sun, And smites our fallow helms and cold Though all the fight be done.
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