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Motif

fellowship of souls broken by death

fellowship_of_souls_broken_by_death

A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family United in Death. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions

sufi

  • The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XIII. / XVII. / XVIII. / XXII.; lines 2608-2622 confidence: medium

    The cited source quatrain says the speaker's sympathetic friends have left one by one, sunk at the foot of Death, and as cup-companions became drunk before the speaker.

    The source quatrain calls the departed friends cup-companions in the fellowship of souls and says they have left the speaker one by one.

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