Upon a thankless world were shed;
Allah has now reveng'd the slight,
And call'd it to its native bed.

_Shebal Addaulet_.


LINES TO A LOVER

When you told us our glances soft, timid and mild,
Could occasion such wounds in the heart,
Can ye wonder that yours, so ungovern'd and wild,
Some wounds to our cheeks should impart?

The wounds on our cheeks are but transient, I own,
With a blush they appear and decay;
But those on the heart, fickle youths, ye have shown
To be even more transient than they.

_Waladata_.


VERSES TO MY DAUGHTERS[33]

With jocund heart and cheerful brow
I used to hail the festal morn--
How must Mohammed greet it now?--
A prisoner helpless and forlorn.

While these dear maids in beauty's bloom,