THE KASÎDAH IX, 117, 128

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;

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
 Mâyâ and Mirage, Dream and Naught.

THE KASÎDAH VIII, 129, 140

“For gen’erous youth,” an Arab saith,
 “Jahim’s the only genial state;
“Give us the fire but not the shame
 with the sad, sorry blest to mate.”

And if your Heav’en and Hell be true,
 and Fate that forced me to be born
Force me to Heav’en or Hell—I go,
 and hold Fate’s insolence in scorn.

I want not this, I want not that,
 already sick of Me and Thee;
And if we’re both transform’d and changed,
 what then becomes of Thee and Me?