Or leave neglected home and field to make a child’s ado?
Christian, Turk, and Persian whimper thus, and fear.
Come, kiss me, and go swiftly, man and Mukri, Ah! my dear.”
There are many hundreds more of this kind of song, some of love, some of war, and others of nothing more than comic histories, such as the Kurds love, and a collection, once started, would never end.
KURDISH POETRY
Of the written poetry there is a large quantity—from Sina—written in the old Guran dialect by Kurds who learned it at the Court of Sina, and the following verses are taken from a manuscript volume containing some of the poems of the most celebrated poets of Sina, Aoraman, and Sulaimania, mostly written about A.D. 1750.
From the poems of Zain ul Abidin Palangani:—
The Early Dawn of Spring.
“I look around upon the pearl drops of the dew
Suspended from the branch, and from the foliage new.