Assimilate ourselves in outward rites

With strangers fortune makes our lords, and live

As Christian with the Christian, Jew with Jew

Druse only with the Druses)—did you call

Or no, to stand 'twixt you and Osman's rage,

(Mad to pursue e'en hither through the sea

The remnant of our tribe,) a race self vowed

To endless warfare with his hordes and him,

The White-cross Knights of the adjacent Isle?

Kar. And why else rend we down, wrench up, rase out?