The Prophet
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Kahlil Gibran
Poet, philosopher, and artist, Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) was born in Lebanon. The millions of Arabic-speaking peoples familiar with his writings in that language consider him the genius of his age and he was a man whose fame and influence spread far beyond the country of his birth. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages and his drawings and paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world and compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake.
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The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
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Table of Contents
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Chapter 1 The Coming of the Ship
Chapter 2 On Love
Chapter 3 On Marriage
Chapter 4 On Children
Chapter 5 On Giving
Chapter 6 On Eating & Drinking
Chapter 7 On Work
Chapter 8 On Joy & Sorrow
Chapter 9 On Houses
Chapter 10 On Clothes
Chapter 11 On Buying & Selling
Chapter 12 On Crime & Punishment
Chapter 13 On Laws
Chapter 14 On Freedom
Chapter 15 On Reason & Passion
Chapter 16 On Pain
Chapter 17 On Self-Knowledge
Chapter 18 On Teaching
Chapter 19 On Friendship
Chapter 20 On Talking
Chapter 21 On Time
Chapter 22 On Good & Evil
Chapter 23 On Prayer
Chapter 24 On Pleasure
Chapter 25 On Beauty
Chapter 26 On Religion
Chapter 27 On Death
Chapter 28 The Farewell
Chapter 1
The Coming of the Ship
ALMUSTAFA, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.
And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of reaping, he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked seaward; and he beheld his ship coming with the mist.
Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul.
But as he descended the hill, a sadness came upon him, and he thought in his heart:
How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.
Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?
Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache.
It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.
Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.
Yet I cannot tarry longer.
The sea that calls all things unto her calls me, and I must embark.
For to stay, though the hours burn in the night, is to freeze and crystallize and be bound in a mould.
Fain would I take with me all that is here. But how shall I?
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether.
And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.
Now when he reached the foot of the hill, he turned again towards the sea, and he saw his ship approaching the harbour, and upon her prow the mariners, the men of his own land.
And his soul cried out to them, and he said:
Sons of my ancient mother, you riders of the tides,
How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
Ready am I to