Look out!
After your prayers, O reverend Sir, to meditation turn:
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
In truth in this our age each one doth mind his own affair;
The scorpion's thinking of his sting, the bulbul of his air;
The bearded chin of beardless cheek, the beardless chin of hair
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
O dervish friend, my eyes' delight, at large the fields you graze,
Who once in schools and colleges did spend laborious days!
Naught know you save the lecturer's rhetorical displays;
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
One calls himself a Shaykhi, one calls himself a Babi;
One faction I'tidali , one party Inqilabi ,
While in " self-help " another lot unto themselves a Law be;
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
Some in the name of Islam foul innovations breed;
Through love of worldly wealth some turn their faces to Yazid,
And by their hand at his command the Prophet's children bleed,
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
By Royal Warrant this one's a Colonel, that a Knight:
Their titles and their honours nor reason have nor right,
While purse and pouch and pocket they fill with silver bright.
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
Some in the Nation's name the wealth of others strive to gain,
That in the Bank their balance may ever grow amain,
That they may eat the choicest meat and drink the best champagne!
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
Some mount the patient camel and thus to Mecca fare;
Some in the middle of the mosque are occupied with prayer;
While some pursue the women, some seek their joys elsewhere.
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
One takes the name of Friday: one Saturday they call,
These fight like cats and dogs and on each other's vitals fall;
The fire these wantons kindle burns cotton, wool and all!
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
Some charlatans in journals long articles indite,
And though the garb they don is black, the sheets they use are white;
And now, alas! his turban casts aside each reverend wight!
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
In truth in this our age each one doth mind his own affair;
The scorpion's thinking of his sting, the bulbul of his air;
The bearded chin of beardless cheek, the beardless chin of hair
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
O dervish friend, my eyes' delight, at large the fields you graze,
Who once in schools and colleges did spend laborious days!
Naught know you save the lecturer's rhetorical displays;
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
One calls himself a Shaykhi, one calls himself a Babi;
One faction I'tidali , one party Inqilabi ,
While in " self-help " another lot unto themselves a Law be;
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
Some in the name of Islam foul innovations breed;
Through love of worldly wealth some turn their faces to Yazid,
And by their hand at his command the Prophet's children bleed,
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
By Royal Warrant this one's a Colonel, that a Knight:
Their titles and their honours nor reason have nor right,
While purse and pouch and pocket they fill with silver bright.
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
Some in the Nation's name the wealth of others strive to gain,
That in the Bank their balance may ever grow amain,
That they may eat the choicest meat and drink the best champagne!
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
Some mount the patient camel and thus to Mecca fare;
Some in the middle of the mosque are occupied with prayer;
While some pursue the women, some seek their joys elsewhere.
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
One takes the name of Friday: one Saturday they call,
These fight like cats and dogs and on each other's vitals fall;
The fire these wantons kindle burns cotton, wool and all!
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
Some charlatans in journals long articles indite,
And though the garb they don is black, the sheets they use are white;
And now, alas! his turban casts aside each reverend wight!
Since each one minds his own affair, you mind your own concern!
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