Is brighter joy for wife to see than this,
When God has brought her husband back from war,
To open wide her gates?) tell my lord this,
“To come with all his speed, the city's idol;”
And “may he find a faithful wife at home,
Such as he left her, noble watch-dog still
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For him, and hostile to his enemies;
And like in all things else, who has not broken
One seal of his in all this length of time.”[[318]]