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And answers him with tender tint and glow,
As if the milky marble lived, indeed.

You enter, reverent:—for a Queen is here,
And the dead King who loved her; and Death's self
Who ends all—and begins all; and Love's might
Which greater is than Death, and heeds him not.
White! white! tenderly, softly, white—around,
Above, beneath—save that the praying floor
Is laid in dark squares, and the architrave
Runs comely with adornings staid, and script
Of Toghra text. See! read! "His Majesty,
Shadow of God, Mûjtahid of the age.
Built this for Resting-Place of Arjamand."
And, elsewhere:—"Jesus said, (on Whom be peace!)
This world a Bridge is; pass thou over it,
But build no House of Hope there." And, again,
The Fatihah—"In the name of God most High
The Clement, the Compassionate!" Four tombs