| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | June 8 | | Mahomet | | By Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| | (Died June 8, A.D. 632)
UTTER the song, O my soul! the flight and return of Mahomet, | |
| Prophet and priest, who scattered abroad both evil and blessing, | |
| Huge wasteful empires founded and hallowed slow persecution, | |
| Soul-withering, but crushed the blasphemus rites of the Pagan | |
| And idolatrous Christians.—For veiling the Gospel of Jesus, | 5 |
| They, the best corrupting, had made it worse than the vilest. | |
| Wherefore Heaven decreed th’ enthusiast warrior of Mecca, | |
| Choosing good from iniquity rather than evil from goodness. | |
| Loud the tumult in Mecca surrounding the fane of the idol;— | |
| Naked and prostrate the people were laid—the people with mad shouts | 10 |
| Thundering now, and now with saddest ululation | |
| Flew, as over the channel of rock-stone the ruinous river | |
| Shatters its waters abreast, and in mazy uproar bewildered, | |
| Rushes dividuous all—all rushing impetuous onward. | | | | |
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