...ide Chaldaea, where from Nysa's top '"Pours down Hydaspes, and the Ganges stream ' Foams to the ocean, nearer far I stood '" Than Persia's bounds to Phoebus' rising fires; '" If by my sufferance, Parthia ns, you alone '" Decked not my triumphs, but in equal state " Sole of all Eastern princes, face to face " Met Magnus in his pride, nor only once ' Through me were saved; (for after that dread day ...