In amity, the mirrors of His favour’s nod.
What are we in this world? All tortuous and bent.
There is not one upright, straightforward, innocent.
Cæsar’s ambassador no sooner ‘Umer heard,
Than light broke on his heart; at which he stroked his beard.
All questions and all answers from his mind went quite;
All sense of right and wrong had vanished from his sight.145
He’d found the source; what need, then, of the streams?
To gather further wisdom, pondering on the means,
He said: “‘Umer, pray tell me what’s the end and use