1881.] C. J. Lyall —Translations from the Hamaseh. 
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Dureyd son of es-Simmeh. 
'Weepest tliou not/ said she,, 'for thy brother V Ay, and sooth 
enough 
cause there is for tears, but that my frame was builded to endure. 
' Whom wouldst thou that I should weep for/ said I,— r 'Abdallah 
the dear, 
or the slain of Abu Beker, he whose grave is on the height, 
e Or that other, 'Abd-Yaghuth, round whom the ravens croak and 
hop ? 
Sore bereavement, load of sorrow—one grave filled, another dug V 
Slaughter chose from all men born the race of Simmeh for her own : 
they chose her, and would none other : so fate goes to fated end. 
5 Yea, and if our blood be ever end and aim of vengeful hands, 
striving day by day to spill it till the days shall be no more. 
Flesh to feed the Sword are we, and unrepining meet our doom : 
well we feed him, slain or slaying, joyfully he takes our food ! 
Hearts are cured of rancour-sickness, whether men against us war, 
or we carry death among them : dying, slaying, healing comes. 
So we halve our days between us, we and all men else our foes: 
no day passes but it sees us busy with this deed or that. 
Ham. pp. 380-2. 
Notes. 
The metre is tawil of the first form, which only differs from that of 
Nos. II, IY, and V by having, in the last foot of the second hemistich of 
each verse, a long syllable instead of a short one in the third place, thus : 
KJ 
| KJ 
V_> KJ 
KJ 
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The translation is in the ordinary long English trochaic measure. 
