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Arrested and rebuked me—‘Foolish Jámí!
‘Wearing that indefatigable pen
‘In celebration of an alien Sháh
‘Whose Throne, not grounded in the Eternal World,
‘If Yesterday it were, To-day is not,
‘To-morrow cannot be.’ But I replied;
‘Oh Fount of Light!—under an alien name
‘I shadow One upon whose head the Crown
‘Was and yet Is, and Shall be; whose Firmán
‘The Kingdoms Sev'n of this World, and the Seas,
‘And the Sev'n Heavens, alike are subject to.
‘Good luck to him who under other Name
‘Instructed us that Glory to disguise
‘To which the Initiate scarce dare lift his eyes.’
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