XI
THE STORY OF THE SUTLER

And so the song was finished. Then they called

To Kizzil Bash, the Sutler of Dilman,

"Take up the tale, for you have wandered far

Behind strange masters...." Once, he said, I served

One of the Roumi lordlings, silver-faced,

Who to forget some sorrow or lost love—

Such is their way—came with an embassage