Hereafter let us live as neighbors kind,

And let thy arrows sleep; no more shall rave

This knife and hatchet; Tatoban was blind!”

“Go!” Waban cried, “thou and thy dastard slave!

Go trap the Neyhom, or the foolish hind;

But thinkest thou into thy open snare,

To lure the cunning fox, and slay him there?”

XXXI.

Thus closed the strife that day; another came,

And all was peace; another sun and still