ʻAyn al-aʻyān: kitāb tafsīr al-Fātiḥah

lil-ʻālim al-rabbānī wa-al-ʻārif al-ṣamadānī Shaykh al-Islām wa-murshid al-Muslimīn marjiʻ al-ʻulamāʼ wa-al-ṣāliḥīn al-taqī al-ṣāliḥ wa-al-naqī al-fāliḥ al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī.

Student poem composed by Jacob Abbot Cummings, 1799 September 16

Handwritten poem composed by Jacob Abbot Cummings when he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The rhyming poem celebrates morning (as a metaphor for life) and describes the farmer, industrious milk maid, and market man. It begins, “Loud speaks the clarion of approaching day..." The poem is labeled "16 September 1799 Cummings" and is headed with a quote from John Milton's Paradise Lost: "Sweet in the breath of morn, her rising sweet, with song of earliest bird."