The following[[270]] are the best specimens of this peculiar verse:
THE PEARL.
“From the cloud there descended a droplet of rain;
’Twas ashamed when it saw the expanse of the main,
Saying, ‘Who may I be, where the sea has its run?
If the sea has existence, I, truly, have none!’
Since in its own eyes the drop humble appeared,
In its bosom, a shell with its life the drop reared;
The sky brought the work with success to a close,
And a famed royal pearl from the rain-drop arose.