O'er thrones and globes elate,

Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.[438:1]

Ode in Imitation of Alcæus.

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,

Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.[438:2]

Footnotes

[437:2]

'T was he that ranged the words at random flung,

Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.

Eastwick: Anvari Suhaili. (Translated from Firdousi.)