Akbar's Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBB CBDEFBGAD AH D AIJJKCALMNHOAPQCBRCS TUARJAAVWXYMJAZCA2JA CJB2C2C2ZD2ACE2F2G2C BH2CAI2J2K2AJL2AI2J2 M2N2VOO2J2ZPAPZZP2BP APGPJ2GJB2Q2PZPJR2AC PPGJ2S2JPJJAJ2C2JPJJ L2JT2PL2U2J2PAZJAAAF AAPZAAJCMACR2PJ2J2PC 2JZEZMCPPJAJPK2AJ2GP V2AAJ2AJJ2CZAW2PPJX2 PAJY2JZJZJJAJPAGJPJ2 PACJPP Z L2 AAPA L2 ZZCZAN INSCRIPTION BY ABUL FAZL FOR A TEMPLE IN KASHMIR Blochmann xxxii | A |
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O God in every temple I see people that see thee | B |
and in every language I hear spoken people praise thee | B |
Polytheism and Isl m feel after thee | B |
Each religion says 'Thou art one without equal ' | - |
If it be a mosque people murmur the holy prayer | C |
and if it be a Christian Church people ring the bell from love to Thee | B |
Sometimes I frequent the Christian cloister | D |
and sometimes the mosque | E |
But it is thou whom I search from temple to temple | F |
Thy elect have no dealings with either heresy or orthodoxy | B |
for neither of them stands behind the screen of thy truth | G |
Heresy to the heretic and religion to the orthodox | A |
But the dust of the rose petal belongs to the heart of the perfume seller | D |
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AKBAR and ABUL FAZL before the palace | A |
at Futehpur Sikri at night | H |
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'Light of the nations' ask'd his Chronicler | D |
Of Akbar 'what has darken'd thee to night ' | - |
Then after one quick glance upon the stars | A |
And turning slowly toward him Akbar said | I |
'The shadow of a dream an idle one | J |
It may be Still I raised my heart to heaven | J |
I pray'd against the dream To pray to do | K |
To pray to do according to the prayer | C |
Are both to worship AlIa but the prayers | A |
That have no successor in deed are faint | L |
And pale in AlIa's eyes fair mothers they | M |
Dying in childbirth of dead sons I vow'd | N |
Whate'er my dreams I still would do the right | H |
Thro' all the vast dominion which a sword | O |
That only conquers men to conquer peace | A |
Has won me AlIa be my guide | P |
But come | Q |
My noble friend my faithful counselIor | C |
Sit by my side While thou art one with me | B |
I seem no longer like a lonely man | R |
In the king's garden gathering here and there | C |
From each fair plant the blossom choicest grown | S |
To wreathe a crown not only for the king | T |
But in due time for every Mussulm n | U |
Brahmin and Buddhist Christian and Parsee | A |
Thro' all the warring world of Hindustan | R |
WeIl spake thy brother in his hymn to heaven | J |
Thy glory baffles wisdom AIl the tracks | A |
Of science making toward Thy Perfectness | A |
Are blinding desert sand we scarce can spell | V |
The Alif of Thine Alphabet of Love | W |
He knows Himself men nor themselves nor Him | X |
For every splinter'd fraction of a sect | Y |
Will clamour I am on the Perfect Way | M |
All else is to perdition | J |
Shall the rose | A |
Cry to the lotus No flower thou the palm | Z |
Call to the cypress I alone am fair | C |
The mango spurn the melon at his foot | A2 |
Mine is the one fruit Alla made for man | J |
Look how the living pulse of Alla beats | A |
Thro' all His world If every single star | C |
Should shriek its claim I only am in heaven | J |
Why that were such sphere music as the Greek | B2 |
Had hardly dream'd of There is light in all | C2 |
And light with more or less of shade in all | C2 |
Man modes of worship but our Ulama | Z |
Who sitting on green sofas contemplate | D2 |
The torment of the damn'd already these | A |
Are like wild brutes new caged the narrower | C |
The cage the more their fury Me they front | E2 |
With sullen brows What wonder I decreed | F2 |
That even the dog was clean that men may taste | G2 |
Swine flesh drink wine they know too that whene'er | C |
In our free Hall where each philosophy | B |
And mood of faith may hold its own they blurt | H2 |
Their furious formalisms I but hear | C |
The clash of tides that meet in narrow seas | A |
Not the Great Voice not the true Deep | I2 |
To drive | J2 |
A people from their ancient fold of Faith | K2 |
And wall them up perforce in mine unwise | A |
Unkinglike and the morning of my reign | J |
Was redden'd by that cloud of shame when I | L2 |
I hate the rancour of their castes and creeds | A |
I let men worship as they will I reap | I2 |
No revenue from the field of unbelief | J2 |
I cull from every faith and race the best | M2 |
And bravest soul for counsellor and friend | N2 |
I loathe the very name of infidel | V |
I stagger at the Kor n and the sword | O |
I shudder at the Christian and the stake | O2 |
Yet Alla says their sacred book is Love | J2 |
And when the Goan Padre quoting Him | Z |
Issa Ben Mariam his own prophet cried | P |
Love one another little ones and bless | A |
Whom even your persecutors there methought | P |
The cloud was rifted by a purer gleam | Z |
Than glances from the sun of our Isl m | Z |
And thou rememberest what a fury shook | P2 |
Those pillars of a moulder'd faith when he | B |
That other prophet of their fall proclaimed | P |
His Master as the Sun of Righteousness | A |
Yea Alla here on earth who caught and held | P |
His people by the bridle rein of Truth | G |
What art thou saying And was not Alla call'd | P |
In old Ir n the Sun of Love and Love | J2 |
The net of truth | G |
A voice from old Ir n | J |
Nay but I know it his the hoary Sheik | B2 |
On whom the women shrieking Atheist flung | Q2 |
Filth from the roof the mystic melodist | P |
Who all but lost himself in Alla him | Z |
Ab Sa d | P |
a sun but dimly seen | J |
Here till the mortal morning mists of earth | R2 |
Fade in the noon of heaven when creed and race | A |
Shall bear false witness each of each no more | C |
But find their limits by that larger light | P |
And overstep them moving easily | P |
Thro' after ages in the love of Truth | G |
The truth of Love | J2 |
The sun the sun they rail | S2 |
At me the Zoroastrian Let the Sun | J |
Who heats our earth to yield us grain and fruit | P |
And laughs upon thy field as well as mine | J |
And warms the blood of Shiah and Sunnee | J |
Symbol the Eternal Yea and may not kings | A |
Express Him also by their warmth of love | J2 |
For all they rule by equal law for all | C2 |
By deeds a light to men | J |
But no such light | P |
Glanced from our Presence on the face of one | J |
Who breaking in upon us yestermorn | J |
With all the Hells a glare in either eye | L2 |
Yell'd hast thou brought us down a new Kor n | J |
From heaven art thou the Prophet canst thou work | T2 |
Miracles and the wild horse anger plunged | P |
To fling me and fail'd Miracles no not I | L2 |
Nor he nor any I can but lift the torch | U2 |
Of Reason in the dusky cave of Life | J2 |
And gaze on this great miracle the World | P |
Adoring That who made and makes and is | A |
And is not what I gaze on all else Form | Z |
Ritual varying with the tribes of men | J |
Ay but my friend thou knowest I hold that forms | A |
Are needful only let the hand that rules | A |
With politic care with utter gentleness | A |
Mould them for all his people | F |
And what are forms | A |
Fair garments plain or rich and fitting close | A |
Or flying looselier warm'd but by the heart | P |
Within them moved but by the living limb | Z |
And cast aside when old for newer Forms | A |
The Spiritual in Nature's market place | A |
The silent Alphabet of heaven in man | J |
Made vocal banners blazoning a Power | C |
That is not seen and rules from far away | M |
A silken cord let down from Paradise | A |
When fine Philosophies would fail to draw | C |
The crowd from wallowing in the mire of earth | R2 |
And all the more when these behold their Lord | P |
Who shaped the forms obey them and himself | J2 |
Here on this bank in some way live the life | J2 |
Beyond the bridge and serve that Infinite | P |
Within us as without that All in all | C2 |
And over all the never changing One | J |
And ever changing Many in praise of Whom | Z |
The Christian bell the cry from off the mosque | E |
And vaguer voices of Polytheism | Z |
Make but one music harmonising Pray | M |
There westward under yon slow falling star | C |
The Christians own a Spiritual Head | P |
And following thy true counsel by thine aid | P |
Myself am such in our Islam for no | J |
Mirage of glory but for power to fuse | A |
My myriads into union under one | J |
To hunt the tiger of oppression out | P |
From office and to spread the Divine Faith | K2 |
Like calming oil on all their stormy creeds | A |
And fill the hollows between wave and wave | J2 |
To nurse my children on the milk of Truth | G |
And alchemise old hates into the gold | P |
Of Love and make it current and beat back | V2 |
The menacing poison of intolerant priests | A |
Those cobras ever setting up their hoods | A |
One Alla one Kalifa | J2 |
Still at times | A |
A doubt a fear and yester afternoon | J |
I dream'd thou knowest how deep a well of love | J2 |
My heart is for my son Saleem mine heir | C |
And yet so wild and wayward that my dream | Z |
He glares askance at thee as one of those | A |
Who mix the wines of heresy in the cup | W2 |
Of counsel so I pray thee | P |
Well I dream'd | P |
That stone by stone I rear'd a sacred fane | J |
A temple neither Pagod Mosque nor Church | X2 |
But loftier simpler always open door'd | P |
To every breath from heaven and Truth and Peace | A |
And Love and Justice came and dwelt therein | J |
But while we stood rejoicing I and thou | Y2 |
I heard a mocking laugh the new Kor n | J |
And on the sudden and with a cry Saleem | Z |
Thou thou I saw thee fall before me and then | J |
Me too the black wing'd Azrael overcame | Z |
But Death had ears and eyes I watch'd my son | J |
And those that follow'd loosen stone from stone | J |
All my fair work and from the ruin arose | A |
The shriek and curse of trampled millions even | J |
As in the time before but while I groan'd | P |
From out the sunset pour'd an alien race | A |
Who fitted stone to stone again and Truth | G |
Peace Love and Justice came and dwelt therein | J |
Nor in the field without were seen or heard | P |
Fires of S ttee nor wail of baby wife | J2 |
Or Indian widow and in sleep I said | P |
All praise to Alla by whatever hands | A |
My mission be accomplish'd but we hear | C |
Music our palace is awake and morn | J |
Has lifted the dark eyelash of the Night | P |
From off the rosy cheek of waking Day | P |
Our hymn to the sun They sing it Let us go ' | - |
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HYMN | Z |
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I | L2 |
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Once again thou flamest heavenward once again we see thee rise | A |
Every morning is thy birthday gladdening human hearts and eyes | A |
Every morning here we greet it bowing lowly down before thee | P |
Thee the God ike thee the changeless in thine ever changing skies | A |
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II | L2 |
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Shadow maker shadow slayer arrowing light from clime to clime | Z |
Hear thy myriad laureates hail thee monarch in their woodland rhyme | Z |
Warble bird and open flower and men below the dome of azure | C |
Kneel adoring Him the Timeless in the flame that measures Time | Z |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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