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The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Do good for Good is good to do:
Spurn bribe of Heav'en and threat of Hell.

To seek the True, to glad the heart,
such is of life the HIGHER LAW,
Whose differ'ence is the Man's degree,
the Man of gold, the Man of straw.

See not that something in Mankind
that rouses hate or scorn or strife,
Better the worm of Izrail*
than Death that walks in form of life.

* The Angel of Death.

Survey thy kind as One whose wants
in the great Human Whole unite;*
The Homo rising high from earth
to seek the Heav'ens of Life-in-Light;

* The "Great Man" of the Enochites and the Mormons.

And hold Humanity one man,
whose universal agony
Still strains and strives to gain the goal,
where agonies shall cease to be.

Believe in all things; none believe;
judge not nor warp by "Facts" the thought;
See clear, hear clear, tho' life may seem
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