Our horses they take,
Our waggons they break,
And ourselves they seize,
In their prisons to coop,
Where we pine and droop,
For want of breeze.
When the dead swallow
The fly shall follow
O’er Burra-panee,
Then we will forget
The wrongs we have met,
And forgiving be.
Footnotes:
[{8}] Gennet is a word of Arabic origin, and signifies paradise.
[{10}] No true Mussulman will receive any remuneration for communicating instruction.
[{13}] Allusion is here made to metempsychosis or the transmigration of souls.
[{14}] His relations.
[{17}] Goblins.
[{18}] Spaces of time.
[{21}] The principal banner.