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                    BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST - 4                              
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Lightly answered the Colonel's son: "Do good to bird and beast,              
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But count who come for the broken meats before thou makest a feast.          
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If there should follow a thousand swords to carry my bones away,             
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Belike the price of a jackal's meal were more than a thief could pay.        
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They  will feed their horse on the standing crop, their men on the garnered  
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   grain,                                                                    
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The thatch of the byres will serve their fires when all the cattle are slain.
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But if thou thinkest the price be fair,- thy brethren wait to sup,           
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The hound is kin to the jackal-spawn,- howl, dog, and call them up!          
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And if thou thinkest the price be high, in steer and gear and stack,         
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Give me my father's mare again, and I'll fight my own way back!"             
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Kamal has gripped him by the hand and set him upon his feet.                 
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"No talk shall be of dogs," said he, "when wolf and grey wolf meet.          
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May I eat dirt if thou hast hurt me in deed or breath;                       
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What dam of lances brought thee forth to jest at the dawn with Death?"       
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Lightly answered the Colonel's son: "I hold by the blood of my clan:         
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Take up the mare for my father's gift - by God, she has carried a man!"      
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