What if I with soul and gold strive here to wage the Holy War?
Praise is God's! ten thousand sighs for battle in my breast suspire.
O Mohammed! through the chosen Ahmed Mukhtar's glorious aid,
Hope I that my might may triumph over Islam's foes acquire!
—Mohammed II.
GAZEL
Ah, thine eyes lay waste the heart, they 'gainst the soul bare
daggers dread;
See how sanguinary gleam they—blood aye upon blood they
shed.