I bear the burden of your world's desire.

"Yet keep that inner smile; and never show it

Though the Account be nothing—shorn of her.

Be wise, O Sheikh. Pray God to be a poet

Lest life should make you a philosopher,

Or lest the dreams of which you had the making

Should prove to be such stuff as still I trail,

And bring your heart, my withers, nigh to breaking

When at the last the Bearer eyes the Bale,

"As you shall penetrate this day or morrow