Friday, October 22, 2004

ALL Faith is false, all Faith is true:
Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes
his little bit the whole to own.

What is the Truth? was askt of yore.
Reply all object Truth is one
As twain of halves aye makes a whole;
the moral Truth for all is none.

Ye scantly-learned Zâhids learn
from Aflatûn and Aristû,[1]
While Truth is real like your good:
th' Untrue, like ill, is real too ...

[1. Plato and Aristotle.]

-Sir Richard F. Burton
"The Kasidah"

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