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" O barren land for ever blest,
Thou throne of Faith's immortal power !
Not in thy face but in thy breast
Lives glory as Faith's promised dower.
* *
How many a land where I have been
Showed beauties that could lull the soul
To pleasure, not to faith serene
As can thy sunbeams' stern control!
* *
The charm has faded from my dream
Of scenes in Beauty's favoured lands ;
Once more I hail with faith supreme
Thy frowning rocks, thy scorching sands."
The Recantation (1935) is a poem that ex-
plains Sir Nizamat Jung's change of mood or
attitude—his passing from the aesthetic to the
spiritual—another lesson of the Haj.
His earnestness and the deep sincerity of
his own faith must have given him at last an un-
common insight into Reality, if I may say so,
and something like prophetic vision. This is
clearly discernible in some of his later poems
which he grouped under the title, The Modern
Age ; and still more so in his lines : To England
(1938)—and in his Now and Hereafter—both, I
believe, born of sudden impulse and written in
Arabia, the land of prophecy.
To England 1938 was published in The Patriot,
and a society called Champions of Christ and the
Crown had it printed and circulated as a timely
warning to the British nation. Sir Michael
O'Dwyer, an old friend of Sir Nizamat, wrote to