{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/zun/zun02.htm","path":"isl/zun/zun02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/zun/zun02.htm","text":"The Diwan of Zeb-un-Nissa, by Magan Lal and Jessie Duncan Westbrook, [1913]\nBut where the rapt faquirs God's praises tell,\n Where at the shrine the pious pilgrims meet,\n Thy verses, Makhfi, holy tongues repeat,\n Thy name is honoured and remembered well:\n For through thy words they win a fleeting gleam\n Of the Divine Belov\u00e8d of their dream.\nSo might we, even in an alien tongue,\n Bring from thy mystic garden, where, apart,\n Thou dwelt communing with thy burning heart,\n These echoes of the songs that thou hast sung,\n And catch thy vision of the Soul's Desire,\n The immortal Ph\u0153nix with its wings of fire.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0J. D. W.","title":"The Diwan of Zeb-un-Nissa: Dedication","type":"page"}