Mortification
Now that the wind has taught your veil to show your eyes and hair, All the world is bowing down to your dear head; Faith has crept away to die beside the tomb of prayer, And men are kneeling to your hair, and God is dead. From the Hindustani of Hatifi (eighteenth century).
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"Now that the wind has taught your veil to show your eyes and hair,..."
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