1 Axam^w POETRY.
2 tepamdMBB 'iig^SM iMie DCrliw , -aaiiB, .who had been aeduced by tbe
3 pmpedt of dLVanceliiesit to join jibe cpeqilieB of their oountiy. •
4 *• I am thf eiiomy of Aurunfr/elx", tlu' King;
5 Hiuugb iiiy head be uti the luuuulAiiiii, uad in tlie wilderness.
6 I am for the honoiir af the A^wun name ;
7 And they have taken part with the Blogula.
8 They always prowl about, like hungry dogs.
9 Alter the soui) and tlic bread of the Moguls,
10 In hopes of an increuik.' ot their rank.
11 Hiey an alwaji ia ponitit of mei
12 My hand could reach t)len^ even now :
13 Bntf I tviU not deatfoij my own aoul."
14 He long continued hi^ exertions^ with the courage and palnotisni
15 of a Wallace ; sometimes succeeding in destroying royal armies, and
16 sometimes wandering almost alone through the mountains. He at
17 one time ftll into hands of Aurungzebe, was canned to India*
18 and was confined lor three years in a dungeon in the hiU*£»rt of
19 Givalior, the great state prison of tfaoae dliya. *
20 During this imprisonment* he composed an degy ; in which, after
21 bm^ting his tmn misfortunes «nd tiiose of his country, he ooodudea
22 with this spirited dedaratibn.
23 " But, in all these misfortunes, I still thank God for two things.
24 One tlmt I am an A%haun ; and the other, that I am KhooeUiauI Khuttn^**
25 He was at length released, I ]mow not by what means, and oncer
26 more returned to his native country, where he published a vast num-
27 ber of y^oems, and a history of the A^hauns, fiom the Babylonish
28 captivity to his own time.
29 The following poem was composed at a time when Kliooshhaul
30 and his few confederates had gained many brilliant victories, but had
31 been intoxicated by their succ^s : had engaged in separate attacks
32 on Uie enemies ibrces i and, in OMisequence of this want of co-ope-
33 * SeeBcniier;
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