Ad Coelum
At the muezzin's call for prayer,
The kneeling faithful thronged the square,
And on Pushkara's lofty height
The dark priest chanted Brahma's might.
Amid a monastery's weeds
And old Franciscan told his beads;
While to the synagogue there came
A Jew to praise Jehovah's name.
The one great God looked down and smiled
And counted each His loving child;
For Turk and Brahmin, monk and Jew
Had reached Him through the gods they knew.
--Harry Romaine, "Munsey's Magazine", Jan. 1895
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I had to look up muezzin and Pushkara to understand the poem better. Barb and I had gotten out poetry books to look for Alexander Pope because there was a "quote of the day" by him. In the process, Barb found this poem in our old poetry books.. We thought it spoke as well today as in 1895. Then I looked up the author Harry Romaine and found out that he had written "fillers" for Munsey's Magazine for years. This was probably one of them.
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