The rose garden of Persia . i]iC;i=1^3:::<^-^C<C<3:SC-<^C^^ FERDUSlS SATIRE OX MAHMOUD. 21 Let not those deeds thy mind amazeA mean and worthless man displays;An Bthiops skin becomes not white;Thou canst not change the clouds of poet shall attempt to singThe praises of a vicious king. Hadst thouj degenerate prince, but shownOne single virtue as thy own;Had honour—faith—adorned thy brow,My fortunes had not sunk, as now;But thou hadst gloried in my fame,And built thyself a deathless name. Oh, Mahmoud ! though thou fearst me not,Heaven^s vengeance will not be forgot;Shrink,
The rose garden of Persia . i]iC;i=1^3:::<^-^C<C<3:SC-<^C^^ FERDUSlS SATIRE OX MAHMOUD. 21 Let not those deeds thy mind amazeA mean and worthless man displays;An Bthiops skin becomes not white;Thou canst not change the clouds of poet shall attempt to singThe praises of a vicious king. Hadst thouj degenerate prince, but shownOne single virtue as thy own;Had honour—faith—adorned thy brow,My fortunes had not sunk, as now;But thou hadst gloried in my fame,And built thyself a deathless name. Oh, Mahmoud ! though thou fearst me not,Heaven^s vengeance will not be forgot;Shrink, tyrant! from my words of tremble at a poet^s ire! The only part of this invective ?which wasundeserved was Perdusis allusion to thefather of the sultan, who merited more fromone who could appreciate virtud than to bemerely named as a slave. What the cha-racter of Sebectighin was the following anec-dotes avill show:— He was at first only a private horseman,in the service of the sultan wl^om he sue- P &. £3^^^ yi 22 THE DEEB, AND HERi PAWN. ceeded on the throne; and, being of anactive and vigorous disposition, used to huntevery day in the forest. It happened once,•when he was thus amusing himself, that hesaw a deer grazing with her young fawn,upon which, spurring his horse, he seizedthe fawn, and binding its legs, threw itacross the saddle and turned his face to-wards home. When he had ridden a littleway, he looked behind, and beheld the mo-ther of the fawn following him, and exhibit-ing every mark of Thesoul of the hunter melted within him; heuntied the feet of the fawn, and generouslyrestored it to liberty. The happy motherturned towards the wUderhess, and oftenlooked back upon him, the tears droppingfast from her eyes. That iGght he saw anapparition in his dreams, which said to him, The kindness and compassion which thouhast this day shown to a distressed animalhas been approved of in the presence ofGrod; therefore, in the records of Prov
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