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The Mosque Of Cordoba Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The succession of day and night	A
Is the architect of events	B
The succession of day and night	A
Is the fountain head of life and death	C
The succession of day and night	A
Is a two tone silken twine	D
With which the Divine Essence	E
Prepares Its apparel of Attributes	F
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The succession of day and night	A
Is the reverberation of the symphony of	G
Creation	H
Through its modulations the Infinite	I
demonstrates	J
The parameters of possibilities	K
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The succession of day and night	A
Is the touchstone of the universe	L
Now sitting in judgement on you	M
Now setting a value on me	N
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But what if you are found wanting	O
What if I am found wanting	O
Death is your ultimate destiny	N
Death is my ultimate destiny	N
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What else is the reality of your days	P
and nights	Q
Besides a surge in the river of time	R
Sans day sans night	A
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Frail and evanescent all miracles of	G
ingenuity	N
Transient all temporal attainments	Q
Ephemeral all worldly accomplishments	Q
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Annihilation is the end of all	S
beginnings	Q
Annihilation is the end of all ends	Q
Extinction the fate of everything	O
Hidden or manifest old or new	M
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Yet in this very scenario	T
Indelible is the stamp of permanence	Q
On the deeds of the good and godly	N
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Deeds of the godly radiate with Love	G
The essence of life	U
Which death is forbidden to touch	V
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Fast and free flows the tide of time	R
But Love itself is a tide that stems all tides	Q
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In the chronicle of Love there are times	Q
Other than the past the present and the	W
future	X
Times for which no names have yet	Y
been coined	Z
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Love is the breath of Gabriel	A2
Love is the heart of Mustafa	W
Love is the messenger of God	B2
Love is the Word of God	B2
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Love is ecstasy lends luster to earthly	N
forms	Q
Love is the heady wine	D
Love is the grand goblet	I
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Love is the commander of marching troops	Q
Love is a wayfarer with many a way side	C2
abode	D2
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Love is the plectrum that brings	Q
Music to the string of life	U
Love is the light of life	U
Love is the fire of life	U
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To Love you owe your being	O
O Harem of Cordoba	W
To Love that is eternal	A2
Never waning never fading	O
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Just the media these pigments bricks	Q
and stones	Q
This harp these words and sounds just	E2
the media	W
The miracle of art springs from the	W
lifeblood of the artist	E2
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A droplet of the lifeblood	F2
Transforms a piece of dead rock into a living	O
heart	G2
An impressive sound into a song of	G
solicitude	H2
A refrain of rapture or a melody of mirth	I2
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The aura you exude illumines the	W
heart	G2
My plaint kindles the soul	J2
You draw the hearts to the Presence	Q
Divine	D
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I inspire them to bloom and blossom	K2
No less exalted than the Exalted Throne	L2
Is the throne of the heart the human breast	M2
Despite the limit of azure skies	Q
Ordained for this handful of dust	E2
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Celestial beings born of light	A
Do have the privilege of supplication	L2
But unknown to them	N2
Are the verve and warmth of	G
prostration	L2
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An Indian infidel perchance am I	O2
But look at my fervour my ardour	X
Blessings and peace upon the Prophet ' sings	Q
my heart	G2
Blessings and peace upon the Prophet ' echo	T
my lips	Q
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My song is the song of aspiration	L2
My lute is the serenade of longing	O
Every fibre of my being	O
Resonates with the refrains of Allah hoo	M
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Your beauty your majesty	N
Personify the graces of the man of faith	P2
You are beautiful and majestic	Q2
He too is beautiful and majestic	Q2
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Your foundations are lasting	O
Your columns countless	Q
Like the profusion of palms	Q
In the plains of Syria	X
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Your arches your terraces shimmer with the	X
light	A
That once flashed in the valley of Aiman	L2
Your soaring minaret all aglow	T
In the resplendence of Gabriel's glory	N
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The Muslim is destined to last	R2
As his Azan holds the key to the	X
mysteries	Q
Of the perennial message of Abraham	S2
and Moses	Q
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His world knows no boundaries	Q
His horizon no frontiers	Q
Tigris Danube and Nile	T2
Billows of his oceanic expanse	Q
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Fabulous have been his times	Q
Fascinating the accounts of his	Q
achievements	Q
He it was who bade the final adieu	M
To the outworn order	X
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A cup bearer is he	N
With the purest wine for the connoisseur	X
A cavalier in the path of Love	G
With a sword of the finest steel	U2
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A combatant with la ilah	U2
As his coat of mail	U2
Under the shadow of flashing	O
scimitars	Q
'La ilah' is his protection	L2
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Your edifice unravels	Q
The mystery of the faithful	U2
The fire of his fervent days	Q
The bliss of his tender nights	Q
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Your grandeur calls to mind	V2
The loftiness of his station	L2
The sweep of his vision	L2
His rapture his ardour his pride his	Q
humility	N
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The might of the man of faith	P2
Is the might of the Almighty	N
Dominant creative resourceful consummate	I
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He is terrestrial with celestial aspect	W2
A being with the qualities of the	X
Creator	X
His contented self has no demands	Q
On this world or the other	X
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His desires are modest his aims exalted	X2
His manner charming his ways winsome	K2
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Soft in social exposure	X
Tough in the line of pursuit	Y2
But whether in fray or in social	U2
gathering	O
Ever chaste at heart ever clean in	L2
conduct	Z2
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In the celestial order of the macrocosm	K2
His immutable faith is the centre of the Divine	L2
Compass	Q
All else illusion sorcery fallacy	N
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He is the journey's end for reason	L2
He is the raison d 'etre of Love	G
An inspiration in the cosmic	Q2
communion	L2
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O Mecca of art lovers	Q
You are the majesty of the true tenet	I
You have elevated Andalusia	X
To the eminence of the holy Harem	K2
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Your equal in beauty	N
If any under the skies	Q
Is the heart of the Muslim	K2
And no one else	Q
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Ah those men of truth	A3
Those proud cavaliers of Arabia	X
Endowed with a sublime character	X
Imbued with candour and conviction	L2
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Their reign gave the world an	L2
unfamiliar concept	B3
That the authority of the brave and	C3
spirited	F2
Lay in modesty and simplicity	N
Rather than pomp and regality	N
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Their sagacity guided the East and the West	N
In the dark ages of Europe	D3
It was the light of their vision	L2
That lit up the tracks	Q
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A tribute to their blood it is	Q
That the Andalusians even today	N
Are effable and warm hearted	N
Ingenuous and bright of countenance	Q
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Even today in this land	N
Eyes like those of gazelles are a common	L2
sight	N
And darts shooting out of those eyes	Q
Even today are on target	N
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Its breeze even today	N
Is laden with the fragrance of Yemen	L2
Its music even today	N
Carries strains of melodies from Hijaz	Q
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Stars look upon your precincts as a piece of	G
heaven	L2
But for centuries alas	Q
Your porticoes have not resonated	N
With the call of the muezzin	L2
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What distant valley what way side abode	N
Is holding back	E3
That valiant caravan of rampant Love	G
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Germany witnessed the upheaval of religious	Q
reforms	Q
That left no trace of the old perspective	F3
	-
Infallibility of the church sage began to	N
ring false	Q
Reason once more unfurled its sails	Q
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France too went through its revolution	L2
That changed the entire orientation of	G
Western life	U
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Followers of Rome	K2
Feeling antiquated worshipping the	X
ancientry	X
Also rejuvenated themselves	Q
With the relish of novelty	N
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The same storm is raging today	N
In the soul of the Muslim	K2
A Divine secret it is	Q
Not for the lips to utter	X
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Let us see what surfaces	Q
From the depths of the deep	G3
Let us see what colour	X
The blue sky changes into	N
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Clouds in the yonder valley	N
Are drenched in roseate twilight	N
The parting sun has left behind	N
Mounds and mounds of rubies the best from	K2
Badakhshan	L2
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Simple and doleful is the song	H3
Of the peasant's daughter	X
Tender feelings adrift in the tide of	G
youth	A3
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O the ever flowing waters of Guadalquivir	X
Someone on your banks	Q
Is seeing a vision of some other period of	G
time	K2
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Tomorrow is still in the womb of	G
intention	L2
But its dawn is flashing before my	K2
mind's eye	K2
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Were I to lift the veil	U2
From the profile of my reflections	Q
The West would be dazzled by its brilliance	Q
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Life without change is death	C
The tumult and turmoil of revolution	L2
Keep the soul of a nation alive	I3
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Keen as a sword in the hands of Destiny	L2
Is the nation	L2
That evaluates its actions at each step	J3
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Incomplete are all creations	Q
Without the lifeblood of the creator	X
Soulless is the melody	L2
Without the lifeblood of the maestro	X
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Translated by Saleem A Gilani	L2
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Not This poem was written in in Spain	L2