The Life of Sir Richard Burton eBook

Thomas Wright
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 288 pages of information about The Life of Sir Richard Burton.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton eBook

Thomas Wright
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 288 pages of information about The Life of Sir Richard Burton.

God the Protector helps the fakir The Refuge helpeth such Fakir
  in his need; And birds and in need;
  beasts no less to succour him Help e’en the cattle and the
  agree. winged breed;

On his account, the wrath of Allah for sake of him of wrath
  God on men descends, And is fain,
  by his grace, the rains fall And for the grace of him shall
  down on wood and lea. fall the rain;

And if he pray one day to do And if he pray one day for plague
  away a plague, The oppressor’s to stay,
  slain and men from ’Twill stay, and ’bate man’s
  tyrants are made free; wrong and tyrants slay.

For all the folk are sick, While folk are sad, afflicted one
  afflicted and diseased, And he’s and each,
  the pitying leach withouten He in his mercy’s rich, the
  stint or fee. generous leach;

His forehead shines; an thou Bright shines his brow; an thou
  but look upon his face, Thy regard his face
  heart is calmed, the lights of Thy heart illumined shines by
  heaven appear to thee. light of grace.

O thou that shunnest these, their O thou that shunnest souls of
  virtues knowing not, Woe’s worth innate,
  thee!  Thou’rt shut from Departs thee (woe to thee!) of
  them by thine iniquity. sins the weight.

Thou think’st them to o’ertake, Thou thinkest to overtake them,
  for all thou’rt fettered fast; while thou bearest
  Thy sins from thy desire Follies, which slay thee whatso
  do hinder thee, perdie. way thou farest.

Thou wouldst to them consent Didst not their worth thou hadst
  and rivers from thine eyes all honour showed
  Would run from them, if thou And tears in streamlets from
  their excellence could’st see. thine eyes had flowed.

Uneath to him to smell, who’s To catarrh-troubled men flowers
  troubled with a rheum, Are lack their smell;
  flowers; the broker knows And brokers ken for how much
  what worth the garments be. clothes can sell;

So supplicate thy Lord right So haste and with thy Lord
  humbly for His grace And re-union sue,
  Providence, belike, shall And haply fate shall lend thee
  help thy constancy; aidance due.

And thou shalt win thy will and Rest from rejection and
  from estrangement’s stress estrangement stress,
  And eke rejection’s pains And joy thy wish and will shall
  shall be at rest and free. choicely bless.

The asylum of His grace is wide His court wide open for the
  enough for all That seek; The suer is dight:—­
  one true God, the One, very God, the Lord, th’
  Conqueror, is He!  Almighty might.

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