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By the DAYBREAK a
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nd ten nights.
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By that which is double and that which is single,
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By the night when it pursues its course!
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Is there not in this an oath becoming a man of sense?
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Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with Ad,
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At Irem adorned with pillars,
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Whose like have not been reared in these lands!
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And with Themoud who hewed out the rocks in the valley;
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And with Pharaoh the impaler;
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Who all committed excesses in the lands,
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And multiplied wickedness therein.
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Wherefore thy Lord let loose on them the scourge of chastisement,
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For thy Lord standeth on a watch tower.
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As to man, when his Lord trieth him and honoureth him and is bounteous to him, Then saith he, "My Lord honoureth me:"
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But when he proveth him and limiteth his gifts to him, He saith, "My Lord despiseth me."
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Aye. But ye honour not the orphan,
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Nor urge ye one another to feed the poor,
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And ye devour heritages, devouring greedily,
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And ye love riches with exceeding love.
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Aye. But when the earth shall be crushed with crushing, crushing,
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And thy Lord shall come and the angels rank on rank,
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And Hell on that day shall be moved up,-Man shall on that day remember himself. But how shall remembrance help him?
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He shall say, Oh! would that I had prepared for this my life!
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On that day none shall punish as God punisheth,
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And none shall bind with such bonds as He.
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Oh, thou soul which art at rest,
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Return to thy Lord, pleased, and pleasing him:
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Enter thou among my servants,
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And enter thou my Paradise.
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