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 myſteries of devotion; let me forget  world, and by the world be, till the moment arrives in which  vail of eternity ſhall fall, and I ſhall  found at the bar of the Almighty"  then bowed himself to the earth,  ſtood ſilent.

By the command of Abbas it is recorded, that at theſe words he trembled that throne, at the footſtool of  the world pays homage: He  round upon his nobles; but every  was pale, and every eye was  the earth. No man opened his ; and the King firſt broke ſilence, it had continued near an hour.

"Mirza, terror and doubt are come me: I am alarmed, as a man who  perceives that he is near the  of a precipice, and is urged forward by an irreſiſtable force; but yet I  not whether my danger is a reality  a dream; I am as thou art a reptile  the earth: my life is a moment; and, in which days, and years, and  are nothing, eternity is before me,  which I ſhould alſo prepare: But by  then must the Faithful be