And This I Know: Whether The One True Light
Kindle To Love, Or Wrath-consume Me Quite,
One Flash Of It Within The Tavern Caught
Better Than In The Temple Lost Outright.
And this I know: whether the one True Light
Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite,
One Flash of It within the Tavern caught
Better than in the Temple lost outright.
-- Rubáiyát. Stanza lxxvii.