When soul communes with soul, minds freely can accost.”
This riddle solve: “A Kurd I last night was, by birth;
And then, this morning, Arab am, by afterbirth.”[373]40
If one, sincere, a Kurdish boor was overnight,
Sincerity an Arab made him by daylight.
Example seekest of science springing in the heart?
This contest heed of Chinaman and Roman’s art.[374]
The Chinese urged they had the greater painter’s skill.
The Romans pleaded they of art the throne did fill.
The sovereign heard them both; decreed a contest fair;