What, thou askest, is the heaven, and the round earth and the sea,
And their dwellers, men and angels,—if with God compared they be?
II.
Heaven and earth, and men and angels, all that anywhere is named,
Matched with him, lose name and being, and to nothing shrink ashamed.
III.
So ’tis seen when this world’s Sultan in his glory forth doth ride,
Highest, lowest, beggars, Emirs, all alike their faces hide.
IV.