batch.motif.sufi-persian-mystics-rumi-davis-gutenberg-l1485-l1516
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-persian-mystics-rumi-davis-gutenberg-l1485-l1516
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
passage_locator:
label: THY ROSE / THE BELOVED ALL IN ALL / SORROW QUENCHED IN THE BELOVED / THE
MUSIC OF LOVE; lines 1485-1516
start: '1485'
end: '1516'
translation: 'The Persian Mystics: Jalálu''d-dín Rúmí'
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage presents grief endured by the speaker, praise of Love as a
healer and inspirer, Love raising earthly bodies heavenward and animating Mount
Sinai, and the Beloved as the all-encompassing reality before whom the lover is
veiled, dead, wingless, or senseless without divine light.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker says his days move with grief, labour, sorrow, and anguish, but
asks the Incomparable Pure One to abide.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Love is directly addressed as sweet madness, a healer of infirmities, and
a physician of pride and self-conceit.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Love is compared to Plato and Galen.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Love is said to exalt earthly bodies to heaven and make hills dance with joy.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The passage says Love gave life to Mount Sinai when it quaked and Moses fell
down in a swoon.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker says that if the Beloved touched him with His lips, he would burst
into melody like a flute.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: A faded rose and withered garden are paired with the silence of the nightingale’s
song.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The Beloved is described as all in all and all that lives, while the lover
is described as a veil and a dead thing.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: When the lover no longer feels Love’s quickening, he becomes like a bird that
has lost its wings.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: The speaker asks how he can retain his senses when the Beloved does not show
the light of His countenance.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: speaker-lover
description: The first-person speaker who suffers grief, addresses the Pure One,
and identifies with the lover who depends on the Beloved’s touch and light.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Love
description: A personified force addressed as sweet madness, healer, physician,
Plato, Galen, and the power that exalts bodies, moves hills, and gives life to
Mount Sinai.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Beloved
description: The Beloved is addressed or described as the all-encompassing living
reality whose touch, lips, and countenance affect the lover.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Mount Sinai
description: The mountain said to have received life from Love, to have quaked,
and to be associated with Moses’s swoon.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Moses
description: Moses is named as falling down in a swoon when Mount Sinai quaked.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
roles:
- id: role:1
label: suffering lover-speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker speaks of grief and anguish and later identifies with the lover
dependent on the Beloved’s touch and light.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: healer of infirmity and pride
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Love is addressed as healing infirmities and acting as physician of pride
and self-conceit.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: animating and elevating force
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Love exalts bodies to heaven, makes hills dance, and gives life to Mount
Sinai.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: all-encompassing beloved
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The Beloved is called all in all and all that lives, and the lover is secondary
or lifeless without the Beloved.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:5
label: living quaking mountain
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Mount Sinai is said to be given life by Love and to quake.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: swooning prophetic figure
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Moses is named as falling down in a swoon in the Mount Sinai episode.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: rose and garden
literal_form: faded rose and withered garden
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:2
label: nightingale song
literal_form: song of the nightingale no longer heard
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: flute melody
literal_form: a flute bursting into melody after the Beloved’s touch
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: Mount Sinai and dancing hills
literal_form: hills dancing with joy and Mount Sinai quaking
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:5
label: lost wings
literal_form: a bird who has lost its wings
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: light of the Beloved’s countenance
literal_form: the Light of His countenance
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: healing physician
literal_form: physician of pride and self-conceit; Plato and Galen
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: grief endured before the Pure One
summary: The speaker describes days filled with grief and anguish, but says their
passing does not matter if the Pure One abides.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: praise of Love as healer and inspirer
summary: Love is praised as sweet madness, healer, physician, and wisdom figure,
then described as raising bodies heavenward, making hills dance, and enlivening
Mount Sinai in the episode involving Moses.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Beloved’s touch as music
summary: The speaker says that the Beloved’s touch with His lips would make him
break into melody like a flute.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: faded garden and silent nightingale
summary: The passage describes a rose faded, a garden withered, and the nightingale’s
song no longer heard.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Beloved all in all
summary: The Beloved is declared to be all that lives, while the lover is a veil,
a dead thing, wingless without Love’s quickening, and senseless without the Beloved’s
light.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine beloved as all-encompassing reality
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The Beloved is described as all in all, all that lives, and the source whose
light and presence sustain the lover.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is lyric and devotional; it does not narrate a full mythic
episode.
- id: motif:2
label: lover’s self-effacement before the beloved
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: The lover is described as a veil and a dead thing in relation to the Beloved,
and as powerless without Love’s quickening.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The language suggests self-effacement, but the passage does not explicitly
use technical terms for annihilation or union.
- id: motif:3
label: love as ascent from earth to heaven
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
basis: Love is said to exalt earthly bodies to heaven.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The ascent is expressed as praise of Love rather than as a detailed journey
narrative.
- id: motif:4
label: divine love animating nature and sacred mountain
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Love makes hills dance, gives life to Mount Sinai, and is linked to the mountain’s
quaking and Moses’s swoon.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: No specific taxonomy motif beyond the available mountain symbol is asserted.
- id: motif:5
label: loss of song and vitality when love withdraws
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The faded rose, withered garden, silent nightingale, dead lover, and wingless
bird all present loss of vitality when the Beloved’s or Love’s animating presence
is absent.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a thematic pattern within the passage rather than a separately
named taxonomy family.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage fits the divine beloved motif family insofar as the Beloved is
presented as the all-encompassing living reality and the lover as dependent on
the Beloved’s presence.
claim_level: same_motif
target: divine_beloved
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is a motif-family classification, not a claim of historical contact
or a specific parallel text.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage can be cautiously compared to annihilation-union patterns because
the lover is described as veiled, dead, and without vitality apart from the Beloved.
claim_level: same_function
target: annihilation_union
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage uses poetic devotional imagery and does not explicitly
state doctrinal annihilation or completed union.
- id: claim:3
claim: The line in which Love exalts earthly bodies to heaven supports a cautious
comparison with ascent motifs.
claim_level: same_function
target: ascent
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage gives a compressed image of elevation, not a staged ascent
journey.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 1485-1490
quote_or_summary: "“Through grief my days are as labour and sorrow” and “Do Thou
abide, O Incomparable Pure One.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 1493-1497
quote_or_summary: Love is hailed as “sweet madness,” healer of infirmities, “Physician
of our pride and self conceit,” and “our Plato and our Galen.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 1498-1501
quote_or_summary: "“Love exalts our earthly bodies to heaven,” makes hills dance,
gives life to Mount Sinai, and Moses falls “in a swoon.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 1502-1503
quote_or_summary: If the Beloved touched the speaker with His lips, the speaker
would, “like a flute,” burst into melody.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 1507-1508
quote_or_summary: "“When the rose has faded and the garden is withered,” the nightingale’s
song is no longer heard."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 1509-1510
quote_or_summary: "“The BELOVED is all in all” and “all that lives”; the lover “veils
Him” and is “a dead thing.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 1511-1516
quote_or_summary: Without Love’s quickening the lover is like a bird without wings;
the speaker asks how he can retain his senses without the Beloved’s light.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Literal extraction is direct from the supplied English passage. Motif and
comparison assignments are limited to the provided taxonomy and remain interpretive
because the passage is lyric rather than narrative.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
No external sources or unprovided comparisons were used.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-persian-mystics-rumi-davis-gutenberg__l1485-l1516
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