The lower jaw should be as strong And changeless as a granite cliff; Its very look should be a thus And not a maybe, somehow, if; Should mark a soul so resolute It will not fear or cease or lag We need a rugged mandible, Provided we don't let it wag.

Wild and beautiful as this poetry of Arabia is, its themes and their manner of treatment seldom vary; as the desert is changeless in contour, filled with a brilliant sameness, whirling at times into sombre fury and as suddenly subsiding, so is the literature which it fostered.

He drew and hid her face his heart upon, Then spoke with low voice sounding changeless on.

And a God there isover Space, over Time; While the Human Will rocks, like a reed, to and fro, Lives the Will of the HolyA Purpose Sublime, A Thought woven over creation below; Changing and shifting the All we inherit, But changeless through all One Immutable Spirit!

See the rivers, how they run, Changeless toward the changeless sea; All around is forethought sure, Fixed will and stern decree.