My Frank brain, thwarted by my Arab heart—

While these remained in equipoise, I lived

—Nothing; had either been predominant,

As a Frank schemer or an Arab mystic,

I had been something;—now, each has destroyed

The other—and behold, from out their crash,

A third and better nature rises up—

My mere man's-nature! And I yield to it:

I love thee, I who did not love before!

An. Djabal!