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PART ‘11
T0 BAHA"U’LLA'H
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ONLY Beloved! With a heart on fire
And all my longings set in one desire
To make my soul a many-stringed lyre
For Thy dear hand to play, I bend beneath Thy mercy—seat and pray That in the strength of perfect love I may Tread With firm feet the red and mystic way Whereto my hopes aspire.
I have forgotten all for love of Thee
And ask no other joy from destiny
Than to be rapt within Thy unity And—whatso’er befall To hear no voice on earth but Thy sweet call,
To walk among Thy people as Thy thrall
And see Thy beauty breathing throughout all Eternal ecstasy.
Lead me forth, Lord, amid the wide world’s ways,
To hear to Thee my witness and to raise
The dawn song of the breaking day of days. Make my whole life one flame
Of sacrificial deeds that shall proclaim
The new-born glory of Thy ancient name;
And let my death lift higher yet the same Triumphal chant of praise!
