Eternal, breathless, we shall wait,

Till, last of all the Avatars,

God finds us in his first estate:

The dust upon the road to Fars."

So still he lay, so still the pilgrims deemed

He was no longer there. The deepening shade

Covered him softly. With his latest breath

Slave Obeidullah looked upon the Queen:

"You whom I loved so steadfastly,

If all the blest should ask to see