Answered, ‘The names of those who love the Lord.’
‘And is mine one?’ said Abou. ‘Nay, not so;’
Replied the Angel. Abou spoke more low,
But cheerly still; and said, ‘I pray thee, then,
Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.’
The Angel wrote and vanished. The next night
It came again, with a great wakening light,
And showed the names whom love of God had blessed,
And lo!—Ben Adhem’s name led all the rest!”