@3Al-Khâfiz! the "Abaser!" praise hereby Him who doth mock at earthly majesty@1. Heard ye of Nimrûd? Cities fell before him; Shinar, from Accad to the Indian Sea, His garden was; as God, men did adore him; Queens were his slaves, and kings his vassalry. Eminent on his car of carvon brass, Through foeman's blood nave-deep he drave his wheel; And not a lion in the river-grass, Could keep its shaggy fell from Nimrûd's steel. But he scorned Allah, schemed a tower to invade Him; Dreamed to scale Heaven, and measure might with God; Heaped high the foolish clay wherefrom We made him, And built thereon his seven-fold house of the clod. Therefore, the least Our messengers among, We sent;—a gray gnat dancing in the reeds: Into his ear she crept, buzzing,—and stung. So perished mighty Nimrûd and his deeds. @3Oh, Thou Abaser of all pride! Mighty Thou art, and none beside@1. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHEN THE GREAT GRAY SHIPS COME IN [AUGUST 20, 1898] by GUY WETMORE CARRYL PROLOGUE. INTENDED FOR A DRAMATIC PIECE OF KING EDWARD THE FOURTH by WILLIAM BLAKE WINTER TREES by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS A MORNING WALK by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN PENELOPE'S LOVER by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 2 by GEOFFREY CHAUCER |