A Ripe Fig

From Chapter 28: A NEW SECTION
Ghazal 644
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When your image settled in our hearts, wherever we sit became like paradise.  
Those thoughts and imaginations, like Gog and Magog, each became like the face of a fairy or a Chinese doll.  
That image for which men and women lamented, if it was a bad companion, now it has become a good one.  
The heights became all gardens and the depths all treasures; what are you that the world became like this because of you?  
Since the day we saw it, we have been growing; the thorn that sought it became a certain garden.  
Every sour grape turned into a sweet grape and sugar, and that black stone also became a precious ruby.  
Many lands became detailed by the sky, and much left became right by the hand of fortune.  
If the heart was dark, now it has become a window of the heart; if it was a thief of religion, now it has become a leader of religion.  
If it was the pit of calamity that was Joseph's prison, for his emergence, it became a strong rope.  
Every part, like the army of God, is subject to divinity; safety came to the servant, and ambush to the infidel.  
Be silent, for your speech is like the Nile; it came as blood to the Copts and as a helper to the Israelites.  
Be silent, for your speech is like a ripe fig; yet not every bird of the air is worthy of the fig.

Barks Interpretation

Now that you live in my chest,