138 C. J'. Lyall —Translations from the Hamaseh. [No. 2, 
And how lacking wastes and wears a man though his heart he high 
—yea, sharper the sting thereof than falling of untanned scourge ! 
He looks on the steps of Fame—the steps he can never tread— 
and sits in the midst of men in silence without a word. 
If am. pp. 520-1. 
Notes. 
Metre Tawtl, as in No. II. I have discovered nothing regarding the 
author or his date. The tribe of Hemdan, to which he belonged, was a 
branch of MecShij, a stock of el-Yemen. 
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Flow sweet the breezes that blow thence to us-ward, 
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Flow fair the days when there thy tribesmen halted, 
and naught on thy spirit did that good time jar! 
5 Months waxed and waned, and we in our heart's gladness 
recked not if full-moon-tide were near or far. 
Ham,p. 548. 
