The world compared to a wax toy

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Once someone asked a dervish to portray

The nature of this world in which we stray.

He said: “This various world is like a toy –

A coloured palm-tree given to a boy,

But made of wax – now knead it in your fist,

And there’s the wax of which its shapes consist;

The lovely forms and colours are undone,

And what seemed many things is only one.

All things are one – there isn’t any two;

It isn’t me who speaks;

it isn’t you.”

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