Weeping Troops before the Khan of Chin

From B14.1, The Khan Learns Kamus Is Slain. It illustrates B14.1.16–27 (to B14.1.30):

B14.1.16
The troops, distressed by brave Kamus’s doom,Came weeping to the Khan in bitter gloom.
B14.1.17
Then Piran bowed and praised the Khan on high:“O lord above the dome of azure sky,
B14.1.18
You have beheld and heard how we have faredFrom first to last, what grief and loss we shared.
B14.1.19
Devise the cure yourself for our mischance;Tell no one; weigh alone our next advance.
B14.1.20
Choose from our spies a watchman keen of sight,Who brings all hidden matters into light.
B14.1.21
Find who he is, this warrior fierce and grim,And who among our ranks can challenge him.
B14.1.22
Then we will all go forth and face our death,And fight him on the field with final breath.”
B14.1.23
The Khan replied, “This grief weighs hard on me;I too would learn who this grim chief may be.
B14.1.24
Who is this dreadful warrior, whose handCan bind great lions and bring them to the sand?
B14.1.25
Yet death admits no cure beneath the sky;Wishes and prayers and vigor fail and die.
B14.1.26
For death’s appointed end we all are born,And bow our necks to fate though hearts are torn.
B14.1.27
No man escapes the circling sky’s command,Though he could crush an elephant by hand.