If it be a mosque, people murmur the holy prayer ; and if it be a Christian Church, people ring the bell from love to thee. Sometimes I frequent the Christian cloister, and sometimes the mosque. But it is thou whom I seek from temple to temple. The Death of Œnone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems - Page 25by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 113 pagesFull view - About this book
| Electronic journals - 1893 - 688 pages
...Kashmir,' quoted by Tennyson as an introduction to his poem, ' Akbar's Dream,' are the following words : " If it be a mosque people murmur the holy prayer, and...Christian church people ring the bell from love to Thee." In the poem Tennyson puts the following lines in Akbar's mouth :— I hate the rancour of their castes... | |
| James Talboys Wheeler - India - 1876 - 362 pages
...spoken, pfople praise Thee ! Polytheism and Islam feel after Thee ! Each religion says. — ' Thou art without equal.' If it be a mosque, people murmur the holy prayer ; If it be a Christian church, people ring the bell from love to Thee. Sometimes I frequent the Christian... | |
| James Vaughan - India - 1876 - 396 pages
...; Each religion says, ' Thou art without equal.' Tf it be a mosque, people murmur the holy prayer ; If it be a Christian church, people ring the bell...frequent the Christian cloister, and sometimes the mosque ; It is Thon whom I search for from temple to temple.1 In the meantime, popular speculation busied... | |
| James Vaughan - India - 1876 - 424 pages
...religion says, ' Thou art -without eqnal.' If it be a mosque, people murmur the holy prayer ; If it bo a Christian church, people ring the bell from love...Sometimes I frequent the Christian cloister, and sometimes th& mosque; It is Thou whom I search for from temple to temple. 1 In the meantime, popular speculation... | |
| James Talboys Wheeler - India - 1876 - 364 pages
...it be a nio-que, people murmur the holy prayer ; If it be a Christian church, people ring the bnll from love to Thee. Sometimes I frequent the Christian cloister, and sometimes the mosque ; It is Thou whom I search from temple to temple." 46 Such language is more political than religious.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...«ifc« equal.' If it be a mosque people murmur tfce fc:* prayer, and if it be a Christian Church, p*"-*' ring the bell from love to Thee. Sometimes I frequent the Christian ctoi^= and sometimes the mosque. But it is thou whom I search from uinrii = i temple. Thy elect have... | |
| Stanley Lane-Poole - India - 1893 - 248 pages
...people that see thee, and in every language I hear spoken, people praise thee. Polytheism and Islam feel after thee. Each religion says, ' Thou art one,...cloister, and sometimes the mosque. But it is thou whom I seek from temple to temple. Thy elect have no dealings with heresy or with orthodoxy : for neither... | |
| English literature - 1893 - 608 pages
...see Thee, and in every language I hear spoken, people praise Thee. Polytheism and Islam feel after Thee . . . Sometimes I frequent the Christian cloister, and sometimes the mosque, But it is Thou whom I seek from temple to temple. . . .' And Tennyson, in one of his last poems, has caught the true spirit... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1893 - 598 pages
...see Thee, and in every language I hear spoken, people praise Thee. Polytheism and Islam feel after Thee . . . Sometimes I frequent the Christian cloister, and sometimes the mosque, But it is Thou whom I seek from temple to temple. . . .' And Tennyson, in one of his last poems, has caught the true spirit... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 922 pages
...people that secthec, nnd in every language I hear spoken, people praise thee. Polytheism and IslAm feel after thee. Each religion says, 'Thou art one....prayer, and if it be a Christian Church, people ring the hell from love to Thee. Sometimes I frequent the Christian cloister, and sometimes the mosque. But... | |
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