The Dancing Fakir
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Eyton, John) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Dancing Fakir: And Other Stories History from a Hill I´ll take you in a tonga up the Tochi Pass at morning, By Edak Fort and Saidgi, where the rocks are tinged with rose; Where Nature´s barren bosom bears no green for her adorning, Save where, beside the water, like a gem, the young wheat grows. Steep hills, red rocks, grim boulders, for the feet that do not falter; Clear crags and slender crevices, for eyes that see afar; A fight for life ´twixt man and man, that ages cannot alter - This prospect I would show you from on high by Miranshah. Those shepherd men, blue-shirted, with dark ringlets and keen faces; The shaggy sheep they follow; and the leader´s tinkling bell; Their food; their nightly fires; their weary sleep in stony places - These change not since a wandering tribe broke off from Israel. Ride up the road to Datta Khel; climb where the stunted holly Grows scattered on the hill-top. Here, three hundred years ago, Swart Moghuls watched as we do, with a pang of melancholy, The far-off snowy ribbon of the lonely Sufed Koh. Then back to Maré Indus; see, below, the fishers tying Old craft, with slender rigging, in the quiet of the creeks, Where women, scarlet-skirted, stood and watched their menfolk plying To and fro across the water at the passing of the Greeks. Come Eastwards to the mountains, where the pilgrim folk are toiling - A bitter uphill journey - to do homage at a tomb. How long ago their fathers saw that little white path coiling Round forests, coloured crimson with the rhododendron´s bloom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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