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2 Ascetics In the Desert

By a stone near Saqqara Sand blown from the Sahara Mixes with dust from Ankara Particularly near a pyramid it peculiarly disappears amid Two ascetics on a pilgrimage They observe the strange vanishing With great verve while brandishing A saber at a passing Saracen They wondered if this was transcendence And blundered towards repentance Hearts thundered in this Presence

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