Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Fitzgerald Edited by William Aldis Wright: In seven volumes |
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One saw him, in a dream, at his Bed-side,
And said, ‘Thou Bajazyd? Tell me Oh Pýr,
How fared it there with Munkar and Nakýr?’
And Bajazyd replied, ‘When from the Grave
They met me rising, and “If Allah's slave”
Ask'd me, “or collar'd with the Chain of Hell?”
I said “Not I but God alone can tell:
My Passion for his service were but fond
Ambition had not He approved the Bond:
Had He not round my neck the Collar thrown
And told me in the Number of his own;
And that He only knew. What signifies
A hundred Years of Prayer if none replies?”’
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