ABSTRACT
Kaidáfa, smiling at Sikandar's bearing,! His gallantry, and angry words, replied :— " O monarch lion-like ! become not headstrong In valour. It was not through Grace of thine That Fúr of Hind, Dará son of Dáráb, And all those warriors of Sind were slain, But 'twas because those world-lords' day was over, And thy star in the ascendant. Thine own valour Hath made thee so presumptuous as to deem Thyself the lord of time and earth, but know That all our blessings are derived from God, So while thou livest give the thanks to Him.
