Masnavi II, 714-15
Little by little God takes away human beauty:
little by little the sapling withers.
Go, recite "To whomever We give a length of days,
We also cause them to decline."1
Seek the spirit;
don't set your heart on bones.
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
From Persian transliteration by Yahyá Monastra
"Rumi: Daylight", Threshold Books, 1994
1 Quran 36:68
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