English poem
Jehannum, Gehenna, Hell
by Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)
And if your Heaven and Hell be true, and Fate that forced me to be born Force me to Heaven or HellI go, and hold Fates insolence in scorn.
I want not this, I want not that, already sick of Me and Thee; And if were both transformd and changed, what then becomes of Thee and Me?
Enough to think such things may be: to say they are not or they are Were folly: leave them all to Fate, nor wage on shadows useless war.
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
All other Life is living Death, a world where none but Phantoms dwell, A breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, a tinkling of the camel-bell.