{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp060.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp060.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp060.htm","text":"Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\nThe gazing crowds still round thee throng,\n \u00a0\u00a0Still to thy well-known voice repair,\n As when erewhile thy hallowed tongue\n \u00a0\u00a0Poured in the mosque the solemn prayer.\nStill, generous Vizier, we survey\n \u00a0\u00a0Thine arms extended o\u2019er our head,\n As lately, in the festive day,\n \u00a0\u00a0When they were stretched thy gifts to shed.\nEarth's narrow bound\u2019ries strove in vain\n \u00a0\u00a0To limit thy aspiring mind;\n And now we see thy dust disdain\n \u00a0\u00a0Within her breast to be confined.\nThe earth's too small for one so great;\n \u00a0\u00a0Another mansion thou shalt have\u2014\n The clouds shall be thy winding-sheet,\n \u00a0\u00a0The spacious vault of heaven thy grave.","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: On the Crucifixion of Ebn Bakiah, by Abu Hassan Alanbary","type":"page"}