Motif
parting transformed into meeting
parting_transformed_into_meeting
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Reunion, Messengers, and Tokens. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
sufi
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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz XVIII / XXIII / XXVII / XXVIII; lines 2465-2492 confidence: high
Grief and parting will pass into meeting; a sad bird’s lament reaches the rose; the speaker says to leave the mosque for the tavern and notes the preacher’s long homily and life’s brevity.
The passage explicitly says parting will end in meeting and grief will pass.
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