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only to glance at the collection of verses to which
he has given the title, Modem Age. They were
written between 1935 and 1938 on his return from
the third pilgrimage to Arabia, and may be taken
as accounts of things seen in his ' visions/
I venture to say, as something stronger than
mere conjecture, that his repeated visits to Arabia
made the current of inspiration flow more steadily,
;till his vision became clearer, and increased in
I him the assurance of unchanging reality amidst
I the false appearance of life. He seems to have
seen in a vision the impending fate of Europe when
he wrote the linesx To England, in sight of the
Arabian coast in January 1938, and the lines
Now a^d Hereafter, two months later between
Jeddah and Rabegh. They were prophetic of the
coming war:
!" The brute in man has risen from his lair,
To make God's peaceful earth a hell of strife."
His Persian verses are a further proof of the
inspiration that came to him from Medina.
" Senile efflorescences of the spirit, " he called
these efforts humorously.