<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464242" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Cow Amid The Butchers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Labour of the day<br>Made me exhausted, <br>Rocked into the valley of sleep, <br>The world of strange happenings, <br>And I beheld an astonishing object: <br>A cow, enormous like a mountain, <br>Around her was a huge gathering <br>Of men and women, all Lilliputians.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They had sharp instruments, <br>Knives, axes, choppers, and blades, <br>Mulberry-baskets, bags of polythene.<br>From peon to prince, <br>All working and ruling figures <br>Of the land were busy in chopping the cow, <br>And the men in uniforms were having<br>Their own legitimate shares.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A man with crowned shoulders<br>And medals on the chest, <br>Hollered his men to expedite the activity.<br>A man wearing crown, <br>Had positioned a ladder, <br>To reach the belly for boneless meat, <br>Two stout bald men seemingly brothers, <br>Supported from both of the sides <br>Each length of the ladder; <br>But a mystery was working behind, <br>The wounds cuts gave healed up instantly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some men and women wearing torn clothes<br>With thin limbs, legs and bony faces<br>Were waiting for their own turn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I too had an axe to cut asunder the chops, <br>But her neck was too high to reach, <br>And I slobbered with un-slaked desire.<br>When I abased in front of the Mountain-cow, <br>She lowered her head in affectionate mode, <br>As if offering her whole being, <br>Feeling pity on my miserable plight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I looked upwards, <br>I was speechless on finding a word, <br>Written in the margin of her forehead, <br>Painted green and white, <br>With a crescent and a star, <br>The word inscribed was ‘Pakistan’.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Muhammad+Shanazar">Muhammad Shanazar</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=464242" data-title="A Cow Amid The Butchers de Muhammad Shanazar" data-description="Labour of the day Made me exhausted, Rocked into the valley of sleep, The world of strange happenings, And I beheld an astonishing object: A cow, enormous like a mountain, Around her was a huge gathering Of men and women, all Lilliputians. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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