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BY the SUN and his noonday brightness!
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By the Moon when she followeth him!
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By the Day when it revealeth his glory!
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By the Night when it enshroudeth him!
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By the Heaven and Him who built it!
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By the Earth and Him who spread it forth!
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By a Soul and Him who balanced it,
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And breathed into it its wickedness and its piety,
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Blessed now is he who hath kept it pure,
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And undone is he who hath corrupted it!
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Themoud in his impiety rejected the message of the Lord,
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When the greatest wretch among them rushed up:-
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Said the Apostle of God to them,-"The Camel of God! let her drink."
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But they treated him as an impostor and hamstrung her. So their Lord destroyed them for their crime, and visited all alike:
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Nor feared he the issue.
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