“Then wherefore cruel Briton, say,

“Compel my aching heart to stay?

“To-morrow’s Sun—may rise, to see—

“The famish’d Lascar, blest as thee!”

VIII.

The morn had scarcely shed its rays

When, from the City’s din he ran;

For he had fasted, four long days,

And faint his Pilgrimage began!

The Lascar, now, without a friend,—