What an elegant multiplicity of circles! The wine-flagon or wine-glass itself is round, and it 'makes the rounds' by going round in circles among the company; the eye is round, and the mirror that it resembles is also round. The wine-flagon of the beloved's is unique and single, all the more so because it constantly flashes out its hundred vivid glories in all directions; the speaker's eye too is unique and single, in its fixed mirror-holdingness of attention. (On the nature of , see 51,9x .) Both of these foci are thus point-like-- and a point can be imagined as the tiniest possible circle. In its serene parallelism the verse doesn't even bother with verbs. Nor do we know how the two lines fit together. Are they linking similar situations, or polarizing opposite ones? (Or perhaps both at once?) The two lines might be equal, interdependent, like bookends: there are two parts of some unnamed experience, and we matter-of-factly cooperate to create it-- the addressee supplies or constitutes one necessary part, the speaker supplies or constitutes the other. Alternatively the two lines might represent a poles-apart depiction: ! The beloved is so unbearably glorious, that the lover can't react at all-- he can only watch in frozen stupefaction, like a single huge eye. She is all activity-- going around, radiating glory, intoxicating people-- while he is passive to an absolutely ultimate degree. Yet of course, the mirror itself is valuable, to the self-adorning beloved and also in a sufistic reading: God has willed to be known, and so on. Moreover, just as the action in the first line happens 'through' or 'from' or 'because of' the beloved, it's perfectly possible that the action in the second line happens 'through' or 'from' or 'because of' the lover-- that is, he might not be simply a mirror or even a mirror-holder or mirror-wielder. He might be a deep, archetypal source of 'mirror-possession' (by others? by the beloved? by the world?). He might be as cosmic a source of 'mirror-possession' as the beloved is of 'glory/appearance'. (After all, we learn in 62,8 that what people think is the dawn is really just the lover's display every morning of one more fresh scar.) For more 'you and I' verses, see 71,2 . graphics/winecarafe.jpg