C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Lamii (Mohammed Ben Osman Ben Ali Nakkash)

(Turkish—Sixteenth Century)

Translation in Dublin University Magazine

WHEN the misbelieving Guebre saw

Thy black locks and dazzling brow,

Wonder smote him to the soul, and awe.

Bilirim! he cried: I now

See that God should be adored

For the darkness as the light;

Allah Akbar! God the Lord

Made not only day but night.