He who died at Azan sends
This to comfort all this friends:
Faithful friends! It lies I know
Pale and white and cold as snow;
And ye say, "Abdallah's dead!"
Weeping at the feet and head.
I can see your falling tears,
I can hear your sighs and prayers;
Yet I smile and whisper this:
I am not the thing you kiss.
Cease your tears and let it lie;
It was mine--it is not I.
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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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Death is the universal salt of states;
Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.
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