Seeta, Volume 3Henry S. King, 1872 |
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arms army asked Aunt Azráel Pandé Baba Sahib Bahadoor Benares blood Brahmin Brigadier brother Buldeo Colonel cried Cyril Brandon Dacoit darling dead dear Deen Dehly English soldiers escaped eyes face faith fear Feringees fire Foorsut friends Futtehpoor Gánja garden gate girl gone Goor Bux Grace Mostyn guns hands hear heard heart Hindoo honour hookah howdah Hrrám Hurpál Singh husband Jhansy Judge's Kafirs knew Lady Hylton letters light looked Lord Hylton Máma Jumeela Mostyn and Grace mother Moulvee mutiny Narendra native Nawab Sahib never night Noble Noorpoor officers once Oudh passed perhaps Peri Buksh poor Poorán Pratt Rahtores Rajah Ranee rebel regiment replied returned rose Ryna safe seemed Seeta Sepoys Shah Gunje sitting speak sword tears tell Temple thee thou thought thousand told took Touba village Wamun wife woman women wound
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Page 145 - God, merciful Father, that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart, nor the desire of such as be sorrowful: mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities, whensoever they oppress us...
Page 27 - And soar unwearied through the air, dividing The water-shedding clouds. Upon my flight Horrific honours wait ; the hollow skulls, That low descending from my neck depend, Emit fierce music as they clash together, Or strike the trembling plates that gird my loins ; Loose stream on every side my woven locks, In lengthening braids ; upon my pond'rous staff The string of bells, light waving to and fro, Jangles incessantly ; my banner floats Upborne upon the wailing breeze, whose tone Is deepened by the...
Page 27 - Now wake the terrors of the place, beset With crowding and malignant fiends ; the flames From funeral pyres scarce lend their sullen light, Clogged with their fleshly prey, to dissipate The fearful gloom that hems them in. Pale ghosts Sport with foul goblins, and their dissonant mirths In shrill respondent shrieks is echoed round.