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ON THE SIKHS.
Sheikh Ferid-ad-dín, Rámánand, Mírá Baí, and other well known sectarian or Vaishnava teachers. The following are specimens of the poems ascribed to Nának: My holy teacher is he who teaches clemency; The beart is awake within, who seeks may find. Wonderful is that rosary, every bead of which is the breath; Lying apart on its recess it knows what will come to pass : The sage is he who is merciful, the merciless is a butcher. Thou wieldest the knife, and recklessly exlaimest, - "What is a goat? What is a cow? What are animals?” But the Sahib declares that the blood of all is one: Saints, prophets, seers, have passed away in death; Nának, destroy not life for the preservation of the body.
AgainLove and fix thy whole heart upon him, The world is bound to thee by prosperity: While it endures many will come and sit with thee and surround thee; But in adversity they will fly, and no one will be nigh thee: The woman of the house who loves thee, and is ever in thy bosom, When the spirit quits the body, will fly with alarm from the dead. Such is the way of the world; The frailty of human affections. Do thou, Nának, at thy last hour, rely alone upon Hari.
Or again, Thou art the Lord, to thee be praise; All life is with thee: Thou art my parents; I am thy child ; All happiness is from thy mercy: No one knows thy end. Highest Lord among the highest, All that is from thee obeys thy will, Thy movements, thy pleasure: thou alone knowest Nának, thy slave, is a free-will offering unto thee.
Under the tolerant reigns of the first princes of the
