I. 11
“Whose gifted eyes have pierced
“The shadow of concealment that hath wrapt
“These bowers, so many an age,
“From eye of mortal man?
“For countless years have past,
“And never foot of man
“The bowers of Irem trod,..
“Save only I, a miserable wretch
“From Heaven and Earth shut out!”
“The shadow of concealment that hath wrapt
“These bowers, so many an age,
“From eye of mortal man?
“For countless years have past,
“And never foot of man
“The bowers of Irem trod,..
“Save only I, a miserable wretch
“From Heaven and Earth shut out!”
Fearless, and scarce surpriz’d,
For grief in Zeinab’s soul
All other feebler feelings overpower’d,
She answer’d, “Yesterday
“I was a wife belov’d,
“The fruitful mother of a numeroos race.
“I am a widow now,
“Of all my offspring this alone is left.
“Praise to the Lord our God,
“He gave, he takes away!”
For grief in Zeinab’s soul
All other feebler feelings overpower’d,
She answer’d, “Yesterday
“I was a wife belov’d,
“The fruitful mother of a numeroos race.
“I am a widow now,
“Of all my offspring this alone is left.
“Praise to the Lord our God,
“He gave, he takes away!”
Then said the stranger, “Not by Heaven unseen,
“Nor in unguided wanderings hast thou reach’d
“Nor in unguided wanderings hast thou reach’d
