@3Al-Mubdî! praise Him by this holy name, Who gave to all the spark which lights life's flame@1 Whence came ye; and the people of the groves; The streams, the seas, the wilderness, the air; Beasts, fishes, fowl; each with their lives and loves, Each glad to be, each in its kind so fair? "Begotten of their like?" Yea! but "their like," Who did devise that, and the hidden charm Whereby—as flame from torch to torch doth strike— The light of life shines on, bright, joyous, warm? Al-Mubdi hath devised it! His decree In the beginning shaped and ordered each, Saying to all these things foreseen, "So be!" And so they were, obeying Allah's speech. @3Al-Mubdî! "Great Beginner!" take Our praises, for life's pleasant, sake!@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TANGENTIAL by LOUIS UNTERMEYER A NOCTURNAL REVERIE by ANNE FINCH THE IMAGE OF GOD by FRANCISCO DE ALDANA THREE SONNETS WRITTEN IN MID-CHANNEL: 1 by ALFRED AUSTIN FROM AN OFFICE WINDOW by FRANCES M. BALLARD |