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C. J. Lyall —Translations from the Hamaseh. 
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weghid , losing. El-menih may also mean lent: but it is unnecessary to 
take it in that sense here. 
v. 7. “ Watch teshaiuwif means straining the gaze in looking for 
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My life and my wealth, yea all that is mine, be ransom 
against Time's wrong for those who shewed true my forecast ! 
The knights who are weary never before Death's onset, 
though stubbornest Strife ply there the dread Mill of Battle. 
Men they who requite not good with an evil guerdon, 
nor do they return for roughness a gentle answer. 
Their sternness abides unflagging, though they be roasted 
again and again in War's most flaming furnace. 
5 They held with the sword el-Waqba's guarded meadow, 
—the sword from whose edge flew all Death's shapes united; 
It drave from before them headlong the rush of foemen, 
and madness at last was healed by a wilder fury. 
Not men they to feed their flocks on the skirts of Quiet: 
not they to pitch tent, whereso they abide, in meekness ! 
Ham, pp, 12—15. 
