Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79.
Allah
By Siegfried August Mahlmann (17711826)Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Allah gives rest in pain,
Cheeks that are white with weeping
Allah paints red again.
Years vanish with flying feet;
But my heart will live on forever,
That here in sadness beat.
Yonder would I take flight;
There will the darkness vanish,
There will my eyes have sight.