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or to extol Thee,
and cried with
such a bitter cry that every mother in her bereavement was bewildered at
me,
and forgot her own anguish and the sighs she had uttered.
I implore Thee,
O my Lord,
by Thine Ark,
through which the potency of Thy
will was manifested and the energizing influences of Thy purpose were
revealed,
and which saileth on both land and sea through the power of Thy
might,
not to seize me in my mighty sins and great trespasses.
I swear by
Thy glory!
The waters of Thy forgiveness and Thy mercy have emboldened me,
as hath Thy dealing,
in bygone ages,
with the sincere among Thy chosen
ones,
and with such of Thy Messengers as have proclaimed Thy oneness.
I am well aware,
O my Lord,
that I have been so carried away by the clear
tokens of Thy loving-kindness,
and so completely inebriated with the wine
of Thine utterance,
that whatever I behold I readily discover that it
maketh Thee known unto me,
and it remindeth me of Thy signs,
and of Thy
tokens,
and of Thy testimonies.
By Thy glory!
Every time I lift up mine
eyes unto Thy heaven,
I call to mind Thy highness and Thy loftiness,
and
Thine incomparable glory and greatness;
and every time I turn my gaze to
Thine earth,
I am made to recognize the evidences of Thy power and the
tokens of Thy bounty.
And when I behold the sea,
I find that it speaketh
to me of Thy majesty,
and of the potency of Thy might,
and of Thy
sovereignty and Thy grandeur.
And at whatever time I contemplate the
mountains,
I am led to discover the ensigns of Thy victory and the
standards of Thine omnipotence.
I swear by Thy might,
O Thou in Whose grasp are the reins of all mankind,
and the destinies of the nations!
I am so inflamed by my love for Thee,
and so inebriated with the wine of Thy oneness,
that I can hear from the
whisper of the winds the sound of Thy glorification and praise,
and can
recognize in the murmur of the waters the voice that proclaimeth Thy
virtues and Thine attributes,
and can apprehend from the rustling of the
leaves the mysteries that have been irrevocably ordained by Thee in Thy
realm.
Glorified art Thou,
O God of all names and Creator of the heavens!
I
render Thee thanks that Thou hast made known unto Thy servants this Day
whereon the river that is life indeed hath flowed forth from the fingers
of Thy bounty,
and the springtime of Thy revelation and Thy presence hath
appeared through Thy manifestation unto all who are in Thy heaven and all
who are on Thy earth.
This is the Day,
O my Lord,
whose brightness Thou hast exalted above the
brightness of the sun and the splendors thereof.
I testify that the light
it sheddeth proceedeth out of the glory of the light of Thy countenance,
and is begotten by the radiance of the morn of Thy Revelation.
This is the
Day whereon the hopeless have been clothed with the raiment of confidence,