Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory to Asia | | The Call to Evening Prayer | | William Rounseville Alger (1822–1905) |
| | | ONE silver crescent in the twilight sky is hanging, | |
| Another tips the solemn dome of yonder mosque. | |
| And now the Muezzin’s call is heard, sonorous clanging | |
| Through thronged bazaar, concealed hareem, and cool kiosk: | |
| “In the Prophet’s name, God is God, and there is no other.” | 5 |
| On roofs, in streets, alone, or close beside his brother, | |
| Each Moslem kneels, his forehead turned towards Mecca’s shrine, | |
| And all the world forgotten in one thought divine. | | | | |
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