Or tombed Kerbela, or Baghdad
The Town-of-Knowledge-of-the-Stars?
Is worship wise or are we mad?"
Answered the poet: "Do we ask
Allah to buy each Friday's throng?
None to whom worship is a task
Should join the caravan of song.
"With heart and eyes unquestioning, friend,
We follow love from sea to sea,
And Love and Prayer have common end: