For ever the Bulbul in the garden warbles not;
For ever the garden is not green and flourishing;
For ever kings do not reign in unalloyed happiness;
For ever friends each other’s society enjoy not.
Note as to owl omens.—Certain physical infirmities in man are reckoned inauspicious, and forbode evil, such as to be blind of one eye. It is very unlucky to look at a one-eyed man, and even if he should be in a high position, as was the case a long while ago with a celebrated chieftain in the North of India, he does not escape a sneer.
When he put an increased tax on the weavers, it is said they taunted him in the following rhyme:
Jowahur Singh kanah
Thray rupeea khuddee. Panj rupeea tana
TRANSLATION.
Jowahur Singh, the one-eyed man,