In Samarcand, he will arise and cry—
“I challenged once, when the two armies camp’d
Beside the Oxus, all the Persian lords
To cope with me in single fight: but they
Shrank; only Rustum dared: then he and I
Changed gifts, and went on equal terms away.”
So will he speak, perhaps, while men applaud.
Then were the chiefs of Irun shamed through me.’
“And then he turn’d, and sternly spake aloud:—
‘Rise! wherefore dost thou vainly question thus