THE CALLING OF ALLAH.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2662, 2 June 1908, Page 7

THE CALLING OF ALLAH.

From the gray ancestral mountains Crowned with purple and with gold, the tombs are of my fathers And the sacred shrines of old. Comes the voice of Allah calling. As the prophecies have told.

From the white dust of the highway. From the saffron evening haze. From the depthiess skies of midnight Where the ruby planets blaze. Comes the voice of Allah calling As it did in olden days.

Now the gartiens an- a-blossom. Lotus bloom and damask rose. Vineyards bourgeon with the simimcr And tho bitter almond blows— But the voice of Allah's calling And the faithful servant goes.

For I hear the muezzin chanting "Allah Akh'»ar" from afar : .'.Hah, fill me with the spirit t't my father's burning star, A leh, I •obey your calling, (ailing to the holy war.

Night comes down on Cnsabanca, nhere the desert silence lies. On the plain a Iif n less heathen With a pair of rigid eves (Allah's voire has ceased its calling) Cazes on the siHent skies. ■ —William F. MCormack.