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Selections from the Poetry of the Afghans, by H.G. Raverty, [1868], at sacred-texts.com

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THE POETRY OF THE AFGHĀNS,

FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,

LITERALLY TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL PUS´HTO;

WITH NOTICES OF THE DIFFERENT AUTHORS,

AND REMARKS

ON THE MYSTIC DOCTRINE AND POETRY OF THE ṢŪFĪS:

BY

MAJOR H. G. RAVERTY,

BOMBAY ARMY, RETIRED LIST;
AUTHOR OF A GRAMMAR, AND DICTIONARY OF THE PUS´HTO OR AFGHAN LANGUAGE; THE GULSHAN-I-ROH, OR SELECTIONS, PROSE AND POETICAL, IN THE PUS´HTO OR AFGHĀN LANGUAGE; THE GOSPEL FOR THE AFGHĀNS; A THESAURUS OF ENGLISH AND HINDŪSTĀNĪ TECHNICAL TERMS,
ETC. ETC.

"Full many a gem of purest ray serene
   The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear;
 Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
   And waste its sweetness on the desert air."

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MDCCCLXVII.

[1867]

Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com by John Bruno Hare, November 2007. This text is in the US public domain because it was published prior to 1923.

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