"Why do good since thou art to be forgiven for thy sins?" he asks.
LXII
"Kaaba Stone," the sacred black stone in the Kaaba at Meccah.
LXXVII
The American poet, Lowell, in "The Crisis," utters the same cry:
"Truth forever on the scaffold,
Wrong forever on the throne."
XC
"And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies."
—Shakespeare: Measure for Measure.
"To let go a flea is a more virtuous act than to give a dirham to a beggar."—Abu'l-Ala.
XCIII and XCIV
Omar too, in the 157th quatrain of Heron-Allen's—
"Had I charge of the matter I would not have
come.
And likewise could I control my going, where
could I go?"
XCV
"Thy two soul-devouring angels," the angels of death and resurrection.
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