Earth's narrow boundaries strove in vain
To limit thy aspiring mind,
And now we see thy dust disdain
Within her breast to be confin'd.

The earth's too small for one so great,
Another mansion thou shalt have--
The clouds shall be thy winding sheet,
The spacious vault of heaven thy grave.

_Abou Hassan Alanbary_.

[25] Ebn Bakiah was vizir to Azzad Addaulet or Bachteir, Emir Alomra
of Bagdad, under the Caliphs Moti Lillah and Tay Lillah; but Azzad
Addaulet being deprived of his office, and driven from Bagdad by
Adhed Addaulet, Sultan of Persia, Ebn Bakiah was seized and
crucified at the gates of the city, by order of the conqueror.


CAPRICES OF FORTUNE[26]

Why should I blush that Fortune's frown
Dooms me life's humble paths to tread?
To live unheeded, and unknown?
To sink forgotten to the dead?

'Tis not the good, the wise, the brave,
That surest shine, or highest rise;
The feather sports upon the wave,