FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
103
If,—impuissance praying potency,—
Thy child beseech that thou command the sun
Rise bright to-morrow—thou, he thinks supreme
In power and goodness, why should'st thou refuse?
Afterward, when the child matures, perchance
The fault were greater if, with wit full-grown,
The stripling dared to ask for a dinar,
Than that the boy cried 'Pluck Sitara down
And give her me to play with!' ’Tis for him
To have no bounds to his belief in thee—
For whom it also is to let her shine
Lustrous and lonely, so best serving him!"
Thy child beseech that thou command the sun
Rise bright to-morrow—thou, he thinks supreme
In power and goodness, why should'st thou refuse?
Afterward, when the child matures, perchance
The fault were greater if, with wit full-grown,
The stripling dared to ask for a dinar,
Than that the boy cried 'Pluck Sitara down
And give her me to play with!' ’Tis for him
To have no bounds to his belief in thee—
For whom it also is to let her shine
Lustrous and lonely, so best serving him!"
