பதிப்பு : மனோன்மணியம் - நாடகம்
363
'For, not unpresicent of the present ills
When rose thy towers, the neighbours of the cloud, I, like the mole, beneath,
Worked path secure against cloud - riving thunder.
508
'Employing Aethiops skilled not in our tongue,
Held day and night in the dark pass they hewed: And the work done, sent home:
So the dumb earthworm shares alone the secret.
512
'Lo, upon one side ends the unguessed road There, - its door panelled in yon far recess, Where, on great days of state,
Oft has thy throne been set beneath the purple;
516
'The outward issue opes beyond the camp,
Mid funeral earth mounds, skirting widths of plain, Where graze the fleetest steeds,
And rove the bravest riders Scythia nurtures,
520
They whom thou ne'er could'st lure to walls of stone, Nor rouse to war, save for their own free soil. These gained, defy the foe;
Let him pursue and space itself engulphs him.
524
Omartes answered - 'With the towers I built
Must I, O Kind adviser, stand or fall.
Kings are not merely men -
Epochs their lives, their actions the world's story.
528
I sought to wean my people from the wild,
To centre scattered valours, wasted thoughts, Into one mind, a State;
Failing in this, my life as king has perished:
532
And as mere man I should disdain to live. Deemest thou now I could go back content A Scytb among the scyths?
I am no eaglet - I have borne the aegis.
536
