Submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #6 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO February 2025

Combining works of (Faridoddin Abu Hamed Mohammad Attar Nishapuri) Sufi poet aka Attar ('apothecary') of Nishapur c.1145-1121 AD and Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns 1759-1796 AD

With about three to five lines of my own to bridge things.

a streaming link is provided below:

https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/embers-of-a-broken-dawn

lyrics:

The sea will be the sea, No matter the drop's philosophy. (Attar of Nishapur)

We are busy with the luxury of things

 Their number and multiple faces bring

 To us confusion we call knowledge Say:

 God created the world, pinned night to day

 Made mountains to weigh it down

 seas To wash its face

 living creatures with pleas The ancestors of prayers 

seeking a place In this mystery that floats in endless space. (Attar of Nishapur)

Talk not of love, it gives me pain,

 For love has been my foe; 

He bound me in an iron chain, 

And plunged me deep in woe. (Robert Burns)

From each, Love demands a mystic silence.

 What do all seek so earnestly? 

Place not so firm a value on self-reliance,

 Love’s tide erodes what we grasp so thirstily.

 Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts, 

In Love no longer 'Thou' and 'I' exist,

 No musing upon what effort brought, 

For self has passed away in the Beloved. 

A form which vanishes into mist. 

Now will I draw aside the veil from Love, 

And in the temple of mine inmost soul 

Gaze on the void’s eternal bowl. 

Behold the Friend, Incomparable Love. 

He who would know the secret of both worlds 

And has the opaque pall unfurled, (me)

Will find that the secret of them both is Love. (Attar of Nishapur)

Cold, alter'd friendship's cruel part,

 Open wounds stung by brine, Love. (me) 

To poison Fortune's ruthless dart Let me not break thy faithful heart, 

And say that fate is mine, Love. (Robert Burns)

Art sources: 

1. background: left:

Village fortifié de Lasguirt dans le Korassan (Haute Perse) 1863. oil on canvas

Jules Laurens  (1825–1901)

2. background: right:

Pixabay pic of Scottish countryside.

3. brooch: Hunterston Brooch, Scotland. Wikipedia public domain image

4. bowl: Nishapur figural bown 900's AD

Iran, Samanid period (819-1005 AD)

Cleveland Museum of Art

5. carved panel: Carved Panel with Harpies, Fish, and Trees, 11th–12th century (thus contemp of Attar)

Excavated in Iran, Nishapur, Stucco; carved

Alamy has a paid-image but pretty sure the public domain of this exists

confirmed the same image is Metropolitan Museum of Art and it's public domain.