And still another moment when—alas!

For that strange fickleness of human life

Whose joys and griefs each other follow like

The spokes of some fast-going wheel—there came

The wounded Bukka with a violent wail

That Timma had the king's adviser slain,

Whose body lay upon the riverside,

Exposed to all the carrion birds of prey,

And him too wounded, but the arrow pierced

Not deep, but laid him senseless for awhile;