In that full blaze with which their holy heart’s illumed.
They’re more exalted than the heavens and what’s beyond;
Their place is in the court of love divine, all-fond.75
XV.
Zeyd’s Inspiration.
The Prophet asked one morn of Zeyd, in tender tone,[376]
“How art thou, dear disciple, faithful to the bone?”
“I’m pious;—a believer,” Zeyd replied; and he
Inquired again: “What proof of faith resides in thee?”
He said: “Whole days I’ve burnt with parching fever’s thirst;