414 FANCY PIGEONS. 



" The following pages on tlie diversion of Pigeon-flying form 

 a treatise on tlie various sorts of pigeons, with an account 

 of the color and character of each kind, and the method 

 of training them ; being composed by Syed Mohammad Musari, 

 the humble Fakeer, the dust of the feet of the travellers of 

 the region of fancy : and the author hath judged it best to 

 express his ideas on the subject in one introductory chapter 

 and three following sections. 



" Of Pigeons Khubin bids me tell, 

 Whose friendship sweetly doth compel. 

 These artless pages Wali gives. 

 Wherein his soul embodied lives. 

 Along whose descant as it flows. 

 The hue, the fragrance of the rose, 

 As from a hundred bowers is shed : 

 And where the feast of soul is spread, 

 Each eye that scans this rich parterre, 

 Unsated culls the blossoms there." 



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