634 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
What though no pageant o’er her humble earth, 
Proclaim the empty honours of her birth! 
What tho’ around no sculptur’d columns rise! 
No verse records the conquest of her eyes! 
Yet here shall flow the poors unbidden tear, 
And feeble age shall shed his blessings here : 
Here shall the virtues which her soul possess’d, 
With sweet remembrance soothe a husband’s breast : 
And here in silent grief, shall oft repair 
The helpless objects of her latest care, 
Recall her worth, their adverse fate bemoan, 
And io a mother’s woes forget their own. 
POEM OF KHOOSHHAUL. 
Afghaun Poetry, by the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. 
Wuence has this spring appear’d again, 
Which has made the country ail round one rose garden? 
The anemone is there, the sweet herbs, the Iris, and the basil, 
The jasmine, the daffodil, the narcissus, and pomegranate flower. 
The flowers of the spring are of «ll colours; 
But the cheek of the red tulip glows most among them all. 
The maidens have handfuls of roses in their bosoms. 
The youths have bunches of flowers in their turbans. 
The musician applies his bow to his cheghauneh, 
And searches out the melodies of every string. 
Come, O cup-bearer, bring full, full cups: 
Let me be satiated with wine and revelry. 
The Afghaun youth have reddened their hands, 
As a falcon dyes its talons in the blood of its quarry. 
They have made their white swords rosy with blood, 
As a bed of tulips blooming in summer. 
Amail Khaun and Derry a Khaun were the heroes. 
Each emulous of the other. 
They stained the valley of Kheiber with blood ; 
And poured the tumult (of war) on to Currupa. 
Up to Currupa, and to Bajour, the mountains and the plains 
Trembled, as with an earthquake, again and again. 
It is now five years that in those quarters, 
Every day has been heard the clashing of bright swords. 
Since I left that country, I am annihilated. 
Am I dead, or are those around me dead ? 
I call aloud for troops till am weary: | is 
But those around me are deaf both to complaints and reproaches. 
