1876.] 



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upright ; but in often changing the attitude, and in redoubling their agitation, even 

 until they become overcome with fatigue, when they fall upon the floor motionless and 

 without knowledge. Then the Shekh aided by his vicars employs no other means to 

 draw them out of their state of unconsciousness than to rub their arms and legs and to 

 breathe into their ears the words la ilaha ill 9 allah." 



No. III. 



ss^jhi fa <>"* (*W d^ ls^^ v 





+y} *j dj& k*ir} W^vo 



1%<? Mystic's Choice. 

 Mine be pure love, love that pursues its hest 



Through wild and desert ! mine the lone lament, 

 The heart of Majmin, and his weary guest, 



And tears, and raiment rent ! 



Mine be the toil that overtasks the breath, 



The groan of pain, the agony of strife, 

 The life that only lives to long for death, 



And death more dear than life ! 



Mine be the wine of love, the deadly wine 

 That floods, like lava, all the seething brain, 



Leaving the lips unslaked. Fell draught ! be mine, 

 My medicine and my bane. 



Mine be the shame, if others deem it shame, 

 To love unloved, nor falter suffering wrong, 



Until beneath the earth my frame and name 

 Be buried, and my song. 



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