“O! father! father! canst thou bear
To die, thy journey’s end so near?
This dreadful desert almost pass’d,
And wilt thou, father! sink at last?”
Thus spoke the hadgi’s noble son,
His darling boy—his only one!
XXII.
’Twas Selim spake—his father now
Gazed on his face with troubled brow,
And ’twas for him escaped the sigh,