From a Persian Scrap, translated by Bronson Alcott

"One knocked at the beloved's door, and a voice asked from within, 'Who is there?' And he answered, 'It is I.' Then the voice said, 'This room will not hold me and thee'; and the door was not opened. Then went the lover into the desert, and fasted and prayed in solitude. And after a year he returned and knocked again at the door. And again the voice asked, 'Who is there?' And he said, 'It is thyself.' And the door was opened to him."