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The Great Khalif's Confession. [Abd-er-Rahman III. ascended the throne of the Moorish Empire in Spain when a mere youth of twenty. He at once set himself to repair the confusion into which the kingdom had fallen in the hands of weak predecessors. He subdued the recalcitrant Arab usurpers who had fastened on parts of the Empire; he made the rebellious Christians submit ; fortress after fortress fell; and in the midst of success he never abused his power. Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole in his "Moors in Spain" thus writes of him:

"The Moorish historians describe this resolute man in colours that seem hardly consistent with his strong imperious policy: nevertheless they describe him faithfully as the mildest and most enlightened sovereign that ever ruled a country. His meekness, his generosity, and his love of justice became proverbial. None of his ancestors ever surpassed him in courage in the field and zeal for religion. He was fond of science, and the patron of the learned, with whom he loved to converse. Many anecdotes are told of his strict justice and impartiality."

He made Cordoba, after Byzantium, the most beautiful of cities then existing. The great work of his later years (outside the toils of government, which he never in any sense deputed to others) was the building of the great palace of Ez-Zaharâ (the Fairest), in honour of the best loved of his wives, and named after her. He was devotedly attached to her, and she once begged him to build her a city, which should be called after her name, which he did; having all his life had great delight in building.

After his death a paper was found in the Khalif's own handwriting, in which he had carefully noted those days in his long reign, in which he had been free from all sorrow: they numbered only fourteen. "O man of understanding," he added, "wonder and observe how small a portion of unclouded happiness the world can give even to the most fortunate."] Abd-er-Rahman the Great in his ivory chair Sat thinking of palaces stately and fair, From the which he might gather a hint of grace, That would lead him some worthier line to trace

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In the spacious palace he now would design
To honour Ez-Zahara of grace divine-
The first of his wives for beauty, and more-
For sweetness and truth, and the love she bore.
And there rose in his fancy the images fair
Of towers and domes in the clear blue air,
With their crests whereon the Crescent would gleam,
Reflecting the sunlight like faëry dream.
And his mind as he sat, by the strangest law,
Went ranging back, with a sense of awe,
O'er the years that had passed since, young and bold,
He ascended the throne of the Emirs old:
When he grasped the reins of a falling state,
And proved restoration was not too late,—
That the sceptre which weakling hands had swayed,
Unworthy of those who the kingdom made,
With the sense that the Prophet, the Sent of God,
Was with them to lighten their arduous load,
In the hands of a man of might and will
Might blossom and flower, as aforetime, still.

He thought of his labours by sword and pen,
Of the strifes he had waged with rebellious men :
Of the battles and sieges, the sudden surprise,
When the waves of revolt, like a sea, did rise:
Of the hours of thought, the sagacious plan,
The swift attack, himself in the van,
By which he secured the kingdom's peace,
And had fixed the laws that gave rich increase-
Till the Moorish power had once again
For tears given smiles unto sunlit Spain,-
And the wealth that was better than warlike spoil-
Content and abundance of wine and oil:
Till the downtrod Spaniards once more were free
From the lash of the Arab nobility;
And robber and brigand no more could rove,
And ravish the fruits of the field and grove:
Till even the Christians confessed 'twas good
To honour a king that no foe withstood :
Who had equal justice for sovereign goal,
And built up the fragments to one grand whole.
And the care of his empire so sore had weighed
That he felt for success in his soul he paid.
His joy he had yielded that Spain might smile,
And its valleys be rich in their wine and oil

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