<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=405307" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Kohinoor...unlucky stone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am black unshaped stone<br>Simple but famous for quality alone<br>When cut to size may assume name of diamond<br>All envy keen interest and passion found</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many may inherit fortune with precious stone<br>Prosperity may return and poverty gone<br>It may shadow bad luck and misfortune<br>Life may go astray with rhythm out of tune</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such is story of diamond “Kohinoor” in possession<br>Previously found with princely states with obsession<br>Sikhs got it with downfall and recession<br>British too lost empire with no concession</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where ever it traveled misfortune followed<br>Uprooting of states and downfall allowed<br>Humiliation and shame had to be swallowed<br>Revenge, hate and reprisal got to be vowed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Kohinoor” came to be known as unlucky treasure<br>Cut into size was mounting pressure<br>British obliged and cut into pieces assured<br>Not to pass to any one promise reassured</div><div style="margin:10px 0">British too were reduced to small empire<br>Golden days passed with good fame to expire <br>Many attempted it to claim and acquire<br>Legal bindings and claims too required</div><div style="margin:10px 0">History may not repeat with its curse and fall out<br>Kohinoor may stay in vault and not invite rout<br>World may know nothing what it is all about<br>It is tale of destruction and misfortune spell out </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still it adores British crown<br>No significance but only in noun<br>Many countries claim and eyes frown<br>British too unwilling and claimdisown</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hasmukh+Amathalal">Hasmukh Amathalal</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=405307" data-title="Kohinoor...unlucky stone de Hasmukh Amathalal" data-description="I am black unshaped stone Simple but famous for quality alone When cut to size may assume name of diamond All envy keen interest and passion found Many may inherit fortune with precious stone Prosperity may return and poverty gone It may shadow b..."></div> </div> </div>

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