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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381139" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Cummerbund: An Indian Poem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She sate upon her Dobie,<br>To watch the Evening Star,<br>And all the Punkahs as they passed,<br>Cried, 'My! how fair you are!'<br>Around her bower, with quivering leaves,<br>The tall Kamsamahs grew,<br>And Kitmutgars in wild festoons<br>Hung down from Tchokis blue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Below her home the river rolled<br>With soft meloobious sound,<br>Where golden-finned Chuprassies swam,<br>In myriads circling round.<br>Above, on talles trees remote<br>Green Ayahs perched alone,<br>And all night long the Mussak moan'd<br>Its melancholy tone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And where the purple Nullahs threw<br>Their branches far and wide,--<br>And silvery Goreewallahs flew<br>In silence, side by side,--<br>The little Bheesties' twittering cry<br>Rose on the fragrant air,<br>And oft the angry Jampan howled<br>Deep in his hateful lair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She sate upon her Dobie,--<br>She heard the Nimmak hum,--<br>When all at once a cry arose,--<br>'The Cummerbund is come!'<br>In vain she fled: -- with open jaws<br>The angry monster followed,<br>And so, (before assistence came,)<br>That Lady Fair was swallowed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They sought in vain for even a bone<br>Respectfully to bury,--<br>They said, -- 'Hers was a dreadful fate!'<br>(And Echo answered 'Very.')<br>They nailed her Dobie to the wall,<br>Where last her form was seen,<br>And underneath they wrote these words,<br>In yellow, blue, and green:--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beware, ye Fair! Ye Fair, beware!<br>Nor sit out late at night,--<br>Lest horrid Cummerbunds should come,<br>And swallow you outright.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+Lear">Edward Lear</a><div class=q>
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She sate upon her Dobie,
To watch the Evening Star,
And all the Punkahs as they passed,
Cried, 'My! how fair you are!'
Around her bower, with quivering leaves,
The tall Kamsamahs grew,
And Kitmutgars in wild festoons
Hung down from Tchokis blue..."></div>
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