[8] Bâlbec has to boast of having given birth to a famous physician, named Beder-ed-dyn Bâlbeky, who lived in the third century of the hegira.
I marked in charcoal, on the walls of the inner temple, the name of Lady Hester with this laudatory quatrain:—
Quam multa antiquis sunt his incisa columnis
Nomina! cum saxo mox peritura simul.
Sed tu nulla times oblivia: fama superstes,
Esther, si pereant marmora, semper erit.
How many names, else never to be known,
Live for a while, inscribed upon this stone!
But, Hester, thine oblivion shall not fear:—
Fame will transmit it, though not written here.