That when the very lance was in his heart,

He shouted "Allah!" and saw Paradise

With all its veil of mystery drawn apart,

And bright Eternity without disguise

On his soul, like a ceaseless sunrise, dart:—

With Prophets—Houris—Angels—Saints, descried

In one voluptuous blaze,—and then he died,—[IO]

CXVI.

But with a heavenly rapture on his face.

The good old Khan, who long had ceased to see