W. C. Tailor: An Ode
Tell me friends what shall you say
On the awful Judgment Day
When Mohammad asks you where
Are those trusted to you care?
Dearer than a thousand lives?
Bound by many a fastening chain
Some in dungeons dark remain,
OnKerbala's barren strand
Others lie, areaking band.
Torn with wounds andstain'd with mud
Weltering in their own heart's blood.
When before the Judgment seat
You the Holy Prophet meet,
He shall ask. If thus you show
The gratitude you justly owe,
For all the benefitsbestow'd
By whom whose bounty freely flow'd.*
*Khurshed , ed., Imam Husain, 2nd ed., p. 158.