But the god of these ballads is Allah, and they sometimes reveal a trace of ferocity which seems to be derived from religious fanaticism.

It is considered honorable to cheat, rob, or deceive by lies one who does not worship Allah.

Oh, when ye to Granada come (and may great Allah send His guardian host to guide you to that sweet journey's end!), Carry my sighs along with you, and breathe them in the ear Of foes who do me deadly wrong, of her who holds me dear.

And as Azarque forward rides, as in retreat he flies, "Now, Allah guard thee, gallant knight," with shouts the people cries.

Three were missing, of whom two were in the country of Ait-bou-Bekr with the chief of that tribe named Abd-Allah, son of Bou-Bekr.

Sidi Mahomet-ben-Abd-Allah sent there his khalifah, called Ettaleb Calih.

"No, by Allah!" replied the Prophet; "she believed in me when no one else did.

And wild from his lips the Tecbir burst: "Let me go," he said, "and, by Allah's fear, At sundown I sit in my fetters here, Or lie 'neath a heaven of starry eyes, Kissed by moon-maidens of Paradise.

Rise up, shake the fetters from off thy feet; For the lord of the battle, are fetters meet? Drink as thou wilttill thou be hoar Let Allah judge theeI judge no more.

" Abu Midjan arose and flung aside The clanging fetters, and thus he cried: "If thou give me to God and his decrees, Nor purge my sin by the shame of these; I dare not do as I did before In the name of Allah, I drink no more.

[Sidenote: "I dreamed that Allah kissed me, and his kiss was cold."

It is only when we remember this that we appreciate the action of the devout Mussulman, who picks up and carefully preserves every scrap of paper on which words are written, because the scrap may perchance contain the name of Allah, and the ideal is too enormously important to be neglected or lost.

" I made that night a solemn vow, To startle all beholders: I wore white muslin on my brow, Green velvet on my shoulders My trousers were supremely wide, I learn'd to swear "by Allah" I stuck a poniard by my side, And called myself "Abdallah."

From his embrasured windows he beheld the cassocked enemies of his creed passing to and fro about their business; he heard his sacred hour of prayer desecrated by their Christian bells, and could do no more than revile them for dogs, the while he awaited the will of Allah.

Allah's will be done!

"Allah be praised!"

"Allah be praised!"

" "I sell not the wisdom with which Allah has endowed me," said the Arab.

"Something, Sahib," replied Mir Daoud Khan with a laugh, "but the hand of Allah had more than that of my brother.

And may Allah smite me blind if I do not unto thee a thing of which children yet unborn shall speak with awe.' "Thus spake Ibrahim, son of Mahmud, for though a dog, a mangy pariah cur, he was still a Pathan.

but 'It would seem that I too have tortured a slave' whereat Ibrahim repeated again 'Yeamay Allah smite me blind!'

'Twas in a good hour that I saved Moussa Isa,' and indeed I too blessed that Somali, so mysteriously moved by Allah to dash the bottle from my brother's hand.

By an irony of history, he is the one Osmanli sultan upon the roll of our Order of the Garter, the right to place a banner in St, George's Chapel having been offered to this Allah-possessed caliph on the occasion of his visit to the West in 1867.

“Allah il Allah!”

“Allah il Allah!”