Gressoney St. Jean, Val d'Aosta,
September 12, '83.
I. THE EAGLE
This poem is drawn quite closely from The Fables of Bidpai.
Dervish—(though yet un-dervished, call him so
No less beforehand: while he drudged our way,
Other his worldly name was: when he wrote
Those versicles we Persians praise him for,
—True fairy-work—Ferishtah grew his style)—
Dervish Ferishtah walked the woods one eve,