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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRINCESS JEHANARA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the road leads from delhi to the south
Last Line: Let no more then be mine when I am dead.'
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; India; Dead, The
First Line: Where the road leads from delhi to the south
Last Line: Let no more then be mine when I am dead.'
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; India; Dead, The
Where the road leads from Delhi to the South,
And dingy camel-trains creep in the dust
Past ruin-heaps of old Firozabad
And Indropat unpitied of the drouth;
By a lone tree, above a Pool whose sad
Prayer-water all the turban-people trust,
Is a heat-hidden tomb, and on it just
A few faint blades of bent and grieving grass.
'Jehanara's it is' -- with ready mouth
A Moslem tells the travel-worn who pass
To lordlier-rising tombs -- 'Jehanara's:
One time her heart, heavy with pity, said:
The covering of the poor is only grass,
Let no more then be mine when I am dead.'
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