Feroza

The evening sky was as green as Jade,

As Emerald turf by Lotus lake,

Behind the Kafila far she strayed,

(The Pearls are lost if the Necklace break!)

A lingering freshness touched the air

From palm-trees, clustered around a Spring,

The great, grim Desert lay vast and bare,

But Youth is ever a careless thing.

The Raiders threw her upon the sand,

Men of the Wilderness know no laws,

They tore the Amethysts off her hand,

And rent the folds of her veiling gauze.

They struck the lips that they might have kissed,

Pitiless they to her pain and fear,

And wrenched the gold from her broken wrist,

No use to cry; there were none to hear.

Her scarlet mouth and her onyx eyes,

Her braided hair in its silken sheen,

Were surely meet for a Lover’s prize,

But Fate dissented, and stepped between.

Across the Zenith the vultures fly,

Cruel of beak and heavy of wing.

Thus it was written that she should die.

Inshallah! Death is a transient thing.

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• The First Part: Sonnet 10 – Fair Moon, who with thy cold and silver shine by William Drummond by Anglo File
• The First Part: Sonnet 1 – In my first years, and prime yet not at height by William Drummond by Anglo File
• The Editor by William Ellery Leonard by Anglo File
• The Book Of The World by William Drummond by Anglo File
• The Beggar by William Ellery Leonard by Anglo File
• Reading by William Marr by Anglo File
• Premature Blindness by Winston Riley by Anglo File
• May-Night by William Ellery Leonard by Anglo File
• Man’s Knowledge – Ingorance in the Mysteries of God by William Drummond by Anglo File
• Indian Summer by William Ellery Leonard by Anglo File
• In the Small Hours by Wole Soyinka by Anglo File
• In Christ there is No East Or West by John Oxenham by Anglo File
• His Mercy Endureth For Ever by John Oxenham by Anglo File
• Harp Song of the Dane Women by Rudyard Kipling by Anglo File
• God Is Good by John Oxenham by Anglo File
• Gadara, A.D. 31 by John Oxenham by Anglo File
• Freemen by John Oxenham by Anglo File
• Free Men Of God by John Oxenham by Anglo File
• For the Men at the Front by John Oxenham by Anglo File
• Flowers Of The Dust by John Oxenham by Anglo File

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