The Broken Wing/The Imam Bara

​The Imam Bara

Of Lucknow

IOut of the sombre shadows,Over the sunlit grass,Slow in a sad processionThe shadowy pageants passMournful, majestic, and solemn,Stricken and pale and dumb,Crowned in their peerless anguishThe sacred martyrs come.Hark, from the brooding silenceBreaks the wild cry of painWrung from the heart of the ages Ali! Hassan! Hussain!
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IICome from this tomb of shadows,Come from this tragic shrineThat throbs with the deathless sorrowOf a long-dead martyr line.Love! let the living sunlightKindle your splendid eyesAblaze with the steadfast triumphOf the spirit that never dies.So may the hope of new agesComfort the mystic painThat cries from the ancient silence Ali! Hassan! Hussain!

The Imam Bara is a Chapel of Lamentation where Mussulmans of the Shiah Community celebrate the tragic martyrdom of Ali, Hassan, and Hussain, during the mourning month of Moharram. A sort of passion-play takes place to the accompaniment of the refrain, Ali! Hassan! Hussain!

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