Who then replied—‘My farms beyond
The Tigris I by sealèd bond
This night before we part, will see
Made over unto him in fee,’
—‘’Tis well; but there will months ensue,
Ere his incomings will be due.
What shall there, the meanwhile, be done?’
He turned unto his younger son,
Who answered—‘I will bid that gold,
Ten thousand pieces, shall be told