The Book of Akbar 306.7

306.7

Verse. God now placed on the head of the world’s Khedive A burden heretofore laid on the top of heaven, On him whose nature had such might, The burden of two worlds could be laid. When the world’s burden reaches a world-king He lays it on his head with thankfulness. Though to outward sense the preacher was descending step by step, in reality he was ascending by gradations. When his speech became ear-enchaining by the holy titles, and his tongue grew pearl-strewing by the glorious name, gratulatory shouts arose from right and left, and there were cries of unlimited submission and surrender. The dressers belonging to the royal manufactories threw a golden robe over the preacher’s shoulders and enveloped him in gold. The treasurers of the Court of the Caliphate scattered gold and jewels right and left. Verse. They flung on one side gold, and on the other, jewels, They scattered jewels in trays, and gold in bucklers. On the same day the rescript of sovereignty was exalted by the titles of H.M. the Shahinshah, and a world-pervading proclamation was adorned by the signet of the Lord of the Earth. All that world-enlightening day, which in truth was New Year’s day for the springtime of realm and religion, the coinage of sovereignty was being impressed by the noble name in fortune’s Mint and the various denominations of coins attained perfection by his just assayment.