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When a man stains not his honour by doing a deed of shame, 
whatso be the raiment he wears, fair is it and comely ; 
And if he takes not on his soul the burden of loss and toil, 
there lies not before him any road to praise and glory. 
She cast blame on us that our number was little to count and few: 
I answered her— 4 Yea : the count of noble men is little. 
4 But not few canst thou call those whose remnants are like to us 
4 —young men who vie with the old in the quest of glory. 
4 It hurts us nought that we be few, when our friend by us 
‘ is safe, though the friends of most men beside be trampled ; 
‘ A mountain we have where dwells he whom we shelter there, 
£ lofty, before whose height the eye falls back blunted : 
‘ Deep-based is its root below ground, and overhead there soars 
‘ its peak to the stars of heaven whereto no man reaches. 
4 A folk are we who deem it no shame to be slain in fight, 
‘ though that be the deeming thereof of Salul and ‘Amir; 
4 Our love of death brings near to us our days of doom, 
4 but their dooms shrink from death and stand far distant. 
