26th Aprill 1686
Sentence of
ag'* Col Ta
Suspended
Aprill 26* 1*86




PRINCE ADEB.


In Sana, oh, in Sana, God, the Lord,
Was very kind and merciful to me!
Forth from the Desert in my rags I came,
Weary and sore of foot. I saw the spires
And swelling bubbles of the golden domes
Rise through the trees of Sana, and my heart
Grew great within me with the strength of God;
And I cried out, "Now shall I right myself,--
I, Adeb the Despised,--for God is just!"
There he who wronged my father dwelt in peace,--
My warlike father, who, when gray hairs crept
Around his forehead, as on Lebanon
The whitening snows of winter, was betrayed
To the sly Imam, and his tented wealth
Swept from him, 'twixt the roosting of the cock
And his first crowing,--in a single night:
And I, poor Adeb, sole of all my race,
Smeared with my father's and my kinsmen's blood,