Persian Sonnets - Part 27
" WELCOME ," he flashes from his flaming brow,
" Welcome to him that comes across the sea:
The stranger from the land that knows not me:
Welcome the venturous keel that dares to plough
My sacred waters: — they will tell you how
Once with my rage I darkened earth and sky,
And once I tossed my fiery fountains high;
The snow lies deep upon the ashes now.
" And men thou know'st not in a tongue unknown,
High over sea and land and piled cloud
Uplifted on my lonely altar-throne,
Worship the power, before whose sacred name, —
O secret tender of the hidden flame! —
Thou too, O stranger-heart, thou too hast bowed."
" Welcome to him that comes across the sea:
The stranger from the land that knows not me:
Welcome the venturous keel that dares to plough
My sacred waters: — they will tell you how
Once with my rage I darkened earth and sky,
And once I tossed my fiery fountains high;
The snow lies deep upon the ashes now.
" And men thou know'st not in a tongue unknown,
High over sea and land and piled cloud
Uplifted on my lonely altar-throne,
Worship the power, before whose sacred name, —
O secret tender of the hidden flame! —
Thou too, O stranger-heart, thou too hast bowed."
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