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A perfect falcon, for no reason,
has landed on your shoulder,
and become yours.
Rumi
or
O goodly spirit! O pure essence!
How long must you wander and hustle?
You are the king's falcon; hence,
Fly back to the king's whistle.
Rumi
I doubt that this has anything at all to do with the poem in question.
Although I have kind of gathered that the falcon is often a metaphor for Islam in Sufic poetry. I don't know for sure, this is an assumption garnered from a relatively brief google search and scan of a dozen or so poetry pages.
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