Part 16 (1/2)
'O bear with you my bones where the camel bears his load, And bury me before you, if buried I must be; And let me not be buried 'neath the burden of the vine, But high upon the hill whence your sight I ever see!
As you pa.s.s along my grave cry aloud, and name your names, The crying of your names shall revive the bones of me, I have fasted through my life with my friends, and in my death I will feast when we meet on that day of joy and glee.'
The French poet, Alfred de Musset's, gentle verses in his elegy to Lucie, and which have been engraved on his tomb in Paris, at Pere-Lachaise, run as follows:
'When I shall die, dear friends, aslant My silent grave a willow plant; I love its foliage weeping near, To me its colour's sweet and dear; Its shadow gray will lightly fall Upon my tomb--a mourning pall, And will likewise do the keeping Of the ground where I am sleeping.'
APPENDIX.
LIST OF TRANSLATIONS
_Published under the patronage of the Old Oriental Translation Fund_.
=From the Persian=.
1. Memoirs of the Emperor Jehanghir.
2. History of the Afghans.
3. The Adventures of Hatim Tai.
4. The Life of Sheikh Muhammad Ali Hazin.
5. Autobiographical Memoirs of the Moghul Emperor Timur.
6. The Life of Hafiz ul Mulk Hafiz Rehmut Khan.
7. The Geographical Works of Sadik Isfahani.
8. Firdusi's Shah Nameh.
9. Private Memoirs of the Moghul Emperor Humayun.
10. History of the Mahomedan Power in India during the Last Century.
11. Customs and Manners of the Women of Persia.
12. Mirkhond's History of the Early Kings of Persia.
13. The Political and Statistical History of Guzerat.
14. Chronique d'Abou Djafar Muhammad Tabari.
15. Laili and Majnun.
16. Practical Philosophy of the Mahomedan People.
17. Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia.
18. History of Hyder Naik, otherwise called Nuwab Hyder Ali.
19. The Dabistan, or School of Manners.
20. History of the Reign of Tipu Sultan.
21. Historical Memoirs of Early Conquerors of Hindustan, and Founders of the Ghaznavide Dynasty.
=From the Arabic=.
1. The Travels of Ibn Batuta.
2. Travels of Marcarius, Patriarch of Antioch.
3. The Algebra of Muhammad Ben Musa.
4. History of the First Settlement of the Mahomedans in Malabar.
5. Alfiyya, ou la Quintessence de la Grammaire Arabe.