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144 Heard he then the unjust sentence: all his goods and gold were given To another, and he stood alone, a beggar in the place.

And the man who bought the judgment looked in triumph and derision At the cheated Hindoo merchant, as he rubbed his hands and smiled At the whispered gratulation of his friends, and at the vision Of the more than queenly dower for Ahmeer, his only child. Fair Ahmeer, who of God's creatures was the only one who loved him, She, the diamond of his treasures, the one lamb within his fold. She, whose voice, like her dead mother's, was the only power that moved him,— She would praise the skill that gained her all this Hindoo's silk and gold. And the old man thanked Confucius, and the judge, and him who pleaded.