ROSARY OF RUBIES

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ROUNDEL 5

 

HUMILITY fair is to Virtue, like a golden thread

Is to a treasured rosary of rubies for soulful prayer:

Undo the thread, the blood red gems will all have fled:

Humility fair.

 

Only the prig with arrogant pride and pomp would dare

To enter an inner sanctum wearing shoes of lead,

So modesty and self effacement are real virtues rare.

 

The Great Prophet of Allah, Mohammed, in his Koran said,

" Who boasts a single rice grain of an arrogant air

Will fall from paradise, and must be seen as of the dead! "

Humility fair.