Selected Essays of James Darmesteter

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Evening and morning I lie at thy door ; I am the first of thy lovers, low low !
5. Mira is thy slave, his salam is on thee ; thy tresses are his net, thy place is Paradise ; put in thy cage thy slanderer.
6. He who says a ghazal and says it on the tune of another man, he can call himself a thief at every ghazal he says. — This word of mine is truth." I shall give only one other ghazal, which de- rives a particular interest from the personality 132 AFGHAN LIFE IN AFGHAN SONGS.
of its author, as
...well as from a touch, of reverie and quaint lunacy, rarely met in Afghan poetry.
When I visited the prison of Abbottabad, in company with the assistant-commissioner, Mr.
P., I saw there a man who had been sentenced to several months imprisonment for breaking a Hindu's leg in a drunken brawl. The man was not quite sane; he told Mr. P. that he was not what he was supposed to be ; that he was a king, and ought to be put on the gadi. His name was Mohammadji. Next day I was sur- prised to hear from a native that Mohammadji was a poet, an itinerant poet from Pakli, who more than once had been in trouble with jus- tice, for he was rather a disorderly sort of poet.


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