Worn away with love, I lie.’
Alas! did not estrangement
Draw my tears, I would not sigh.
‘O First and Everlasting!
Show thy favour yet to me.
Thy slave, Ahh’mad El-Bek’ree,[150]
Hath no Lord excepting Thee.
By Tá-Há,[151] the great prophet,
Do thou not his wish deny.
Alas! did not estrangement