Munkir And Nakir Journal Article

JJiUNI(IR AND N AKIR. Through the long silences of night We cry unto thy hollow tomb : Other muezzins praise the light We are muezzins of the gloom. Oh thou, within the brown Earth laid : All thy fine vestures stripped from thee, Thy loves which burned for man or maid, Thy jewels and thy pageantry. Truly, as some slow caravan And camels ·o'er the desert flit, . Thou hast passed from the frame of man And knowest well the end of it. Dust m eetcth dust, and none remain Beneath the stern unflinching Sun. The death-throe and the bearing-pain Within the grave are made as one. Only thy soul in this dark shrine Faceth its maker, the One Lord. We come to judge thee, and divine Thy spirit by its spoken word. Thou liest Earth to earth to-day, Thy ruined hand weds broken clod. Yet even in death's darkness stay Prayer and Faith and Love of God. These only can restore thy fate, Lave thy lost lips, unseal thine eyes. These only will unlock the Gate, And lead thy soul to Paradise. REGINA l\fIRIAM BLOCH.