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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.