BY THE SAME AUTHOR

THE SINGING CARAVAN

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THE SINGINGCARAVAN

A SUFI TALE

BY

ROBERT VANSITTART

Each man is many as a caravan;

His straggling selves collect in tales like these.

Only the love of one can make him one.

Who takes the Sufi Way—the Way of Peace?

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
1919

Printed in Great Britain

IN MEMORIAM

MY BROTHER ARNOLD

2nd Lieutenant, 11th Hussars
KILLED IN ACTION NEAR YPRES
MAY 1915

In twenty years of lands and seas and cities

I had small joy and sought for it the more,

Thinking: "If ever I am πολύμητις,

'Tis yours to draw upon the hard-won store."

I had some bouts from Samarkand to Paris,

And took some falls 'twixt Sweden and Sudan.

If I was slow and patient learning parries,

I hoped to teach you when you were a man.

I cannot fall to whining round the threshold

Where Death awaited you. I lack the skill

Of hands for ever working out a fresh hold

On life. In mystic ways I serve you still.

The age of miracles is not

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