CXVI.

But with a heavenly rapture on his face.

The good old Khan, who long had ceased to see

Houris, or aught except his florid race,

Who grew like cedars round him gloriously—

When he beheld his latest hero grace

The earth, which he became like a felled tree,

Paused for a moment from the fight, and cast

A glance on that slain son, his first and last.

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