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C. J. Lyall —Translations from the Hamdseh. 
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an be dealt with a sword : as shearing oft the head, cleaving the skull, &c. 
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Ibrahim son of Iluneyf en-Nebhdni. 
Be patient : for free-born men to bear is the fairest thing*, 
and refuge against Time's wrong or help from his hurt is none. 
And if it availed man aught to bow him to fluttering Fear, 
or if he could ward off hurt bj humbling himself to III, 
To bear with a valiant front the full brunt of every stroke 
and onset of Fate were still the fairest and best of things. 
But how much the more, when none outruns by a span his Doom, 
and refuge from God’s decree nor was nor will ever be. 
5 And sooth, if the changing Days have wrought us—their wonted 
way— 
a lot mixed of weal and woe, yet one thing they could not do : 
They have not made soft or weak the stock of our sturdy spear: 
they have not abased our hearts to doing of deeds of shame. 
