text:  All praise to the First Sultan MAHMOOD THE GHAZNAVIDE! His fame be like the firmament As moveless and as wide! MAHMOOD who saw before him Pagoda'd Bramah fall-- Twelve times he swept the orient earth From Bagdad to Bengal; Twelve times amid their Steppes of ice He smote each Golden Horde[7]-- Round the South's sultry isles twelve times His ships resistless pour'd; MAHMOOD--his tomb in Ghazna For many an age shall show The mighty mace with which he laid DU'S hideous idol low