To swallow fell poison should he once decide.
He’s whole, and he’s sound; strict diet’s his rule.
Poor students are healthy in fever’s dread school.
The Prophet has cautioned: “Brave though you may be,
Commit not mad rashness, howe’er the foe flee.”
Within thee’s a Nimrod. Approach not the fire.
Approach it thou must? To be Abr’am aspire.60
A swimmer thou art not;—nor seaman by trade;
From headstrongness strive not the deep sea to wade.
From fire Abr’am brought forth a fresh-plucked red rose.