Mortification

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Title:     Mortification
Author: Edward Powys Mathers [More Titles by Mathers]

Now that the wind has taught your veil to show your eyes and hair,
All the world is bowing down to your dear head;
Faith has crept away to die beside the tomb of prayer,
And men are kneeling to your hair, and God is dead.

From the Hindustani of Hatifi (eighteenth century).

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Edward Powys Mathers's poem: Mortification

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