Classic Poem

He does not wear the pale leaf of the great palmyra palm
or a garland from the margosa tree with its black branches.
Your chaplet is dense with laburnum and he who fights against you
wears a chaplet dense with laburnum! If one of you is defeated,
your lineage is defeated, and it is not possible that both
of you can win! So what you do is no good thing
for your lineage! And yet, this battle will give such joy,
making their bodies swell with pride,
to kings who are like you, with their chariots waving banners!