ALLAH
Allah gives light in darkness,
Allah gives rest in pain,
Cheeks that are white with weeping
Allah paints red again.
The flowers and the blossoms wither,
Years vanish with flying feet,
But my heart will live on forever,
That here in anguish beat.
Gladly to Allah’s dwelling
Yonder would I take flight,
There will the darkness vanish,
There will my eyes have sight.
Listing Details
Type
- Song
Composer
A. Walter Kramer
Lyricist
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; tr. From the German of Siegfried August Mahlmann
Copyright
1912
Publisher
Oliver Ditson Co., Boston
Notes
George W. Chadwick (Arthur P. Schmidt & Co., 1887) composed an earlier setting of this poem with two changes: the end of v. 2 reads, "That here in sadness beat" and the last line of the poem reads, "There will my eyes have light."
