332 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 1906. 
in SS aly Bol) ees) » as cnr BL yo Edemind poze sel} 
: Ae ea 7 * ra ~ 
BS 3S easy py 9 bh eS coed ppl Sen WS oh IS b 
| 
I saw a raven seated on the walls of Tis, | 
Before it lay the skull of Kaika*is ; | 
To the skull it kept saying, “ Afsis ! Afsiis ! 
Where is Rustam, where Kaiqubad, where Kaika*is ?” 
In Whinfield’s ‘Umar-i-Khayyam, this quatrain (No, 277) 
reads :— 
ASS AS wold ay 0. Gupk HU yo abe pave eye 
9s ELBS, lose LU Ss upetlegedl WS CaS p08 all 
“I saw a bird perched on the walls of Tis, 
Before him lay the skull of Kai Kawts, 
And thus he made his moan, ‘Alas, poor king! 
Thy drums are hushed, thy ’larums have rung truce.” 
D. C, PHILLOTT. 
3. A Persian Nonsense Rhyme. 
Persians delight in mimicry, and the following clever non- 
sense, impossible to translate satisfactorily, was composed by an 
Akhind, a friend of the present writer, in ridicule of the sermons 
of certainlearned divines, A Persian preacher, who has any claims 
to scholarship, first delivers a sentence in Arabic, and then translates 
it into Persian, mouthing the words and speaking with an exagger- 
ated accent: more attention is paid to rhyme and alliteration than 
to sense :—— 
BB gH Bee emt nig as ye pls WUT evoad aides iyo 
35 Bre Sle 5 plo ety Holt Sy ut lb gli; pit 58 9f 
sh ie ey ee? 
' T have failed to discover the meaning or allusion of Quli-yi ran. : 
