The work of the world must be done without wage to be done to our credit.
We shall profit in claiming our guerdon not by what we are but become.'
"So the Queen came to Kuddus. Mashallah! Shall a picture be limned of her coming!
Flushed dancers and lutists athrumming light-limbed as Daoud round the Ark!
Crushed roadway and crowd-applause rumbled, loud music, hushed barbarous mumming!
To the cry, 'On to Sion' above her, this lover rode straight at her mark!"
And the Wazir cried, "Ho!" to the rhymes.
"She had but to flatter the wizard to win him. He said to the hoopoe:
'I will haggle no more. You shall learn to your cost what the bargainer buys,
Whose faith levies toll upon duty, whose trust will not serve me on trust,