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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.