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farewell pleasure ! farewell the well-earned fruits of industry and frugality ! Our lands shall be the property of others , and we still tied down by slavish chains to cultivate and improve them . Our houses , our substance , shall be the reward of foreign robbers ; our wives and our virgins shall bow down before conquerors ; and we , like the beasts of the field , shall be drawn in the scorching midday to the furrow or the mine . '' As Hobaddan began to utter these words , Horam , astonished at his malice and presumption , ordered the archers who attended him to draw forth their arrows , and pierce him to the heart ; but the weapons of war were as straws on the armour of Hobaddan , and he stood dauntless and unhurt amidst ten thousand arrows . `` Friends and brethren ! '' continued Hobaddan , `` you see the powers above are on our side ; the arrows of Horam are as chaff on the plain , and as the dust which penetrates not the garments of the traveller .