But when one told him, "He is dead,"
Turning him quickly to go in,--
"Bring thou to me his corpse," he said.
And truly while I speak, O King,
I hear the bearers on the stair;
Wilt thou they straightway bring him in?
--Ho! enter ye who tarry there!
THE VIZIER
O King, in this I praise thee not.
Now must I call thy grief not wise,