Like squib when ’tis revolved in dark by boy with tape.
A flash of flame, through motion’s necessary speed,
Appears unto our eyes a fire of size, indeed.
Its length and its extension, through quickness of fact,
Appear to be effects of God’s creative act.265
A student of this mystery, a doctor of great skill,
Is our Husāmu-’d-Dīn,[163] whose praises books would fill.
The lion, now enraged with hunger’s gnawing pain,
Perceived the hare was coming, bounding o’er the plain.
All carelessly, in confidence, he frisking came,